ABSTRACT
From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and discusses the most significant developments in material history from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians and addresses important questions about how we classify and categorise nineteenth-century things.
This second volume, ‘Science and Medicine’, will examine objects (from the most significant to the most obscure) that played a part in nineteenth-century scientific developments.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|310 pages
Practice
part 1.1|9 pages
Natural philosophy
chapter 1|5 pages
George Adams, ‘On the Nature and Properties of Air’
part 1.2|19 pages
Astronomy and navigation
chapter 2|5 pages
Neville Maskelyne, ‘Draft Instructions for John Crosley to Go on a Voyage to New Holland on Board HMS Investigator’
chapter 3|4 pages
John Frederick William Herschel, ‘Of the Nature of Astronomical Instruments and Observations in General’
chapter 4|4 pages
George Biddell Airy, ‘Astronomy’
part 1.3|22 pages
Meteorology
chapter 5|3 pages
Luke Howard, ‘Of the Barometer’
chapter 6|12 pages
John Frederick William Herschel, ‘Of Meteorological Instruments; and First, of the Barometer and its Attached Thermometer’
chapter 7|3 pages
Robert H. Scott, ‘Kew Marine Barometer’
part 1.4|15 pages
Geography and exploration
chapter 8|9 pages
Francis Galton, ‘Letter Addressed by Francis Galton, Esq., to the Secretary’
chapter 9|2 pages
William Ford Stanley, ‘Packing of Instruments’
part 1.5|20 pages
Metrology
chapter 10|14 pages
Charles Piazzi Smyth, ‘Instrumentals’
part 1.6|44 pages
Natural history
chapter 11|8 pages
Charles Darwin, ‘Geology’
chapter 12|23 pages
Richard Owen, ‘Zoology’
chapter 13|5 pages
William Hooker, ‘Botany’
chapter 14|2 pages
J. C. Prichard, ‘Ethnology’
part 1.7|26 pages
Microscopy
chapter 15|15 pages
Charles R. Goring, ‘On Mr. Tulley's Thick Aplanatic Object-Glasses, for Diverging Rays; with an Account of a Few Microscopic Test Objects’
chapter 16|3 pages
Jabez Hogg, ‘Introduction’, in The Microscope
chapter 17|4 pages
Charles Darwin, ‘On the Use of the Microscope on Board Ship’
part 1.8|22 pages
Medicine
chapter 18|7 pages
René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, ‘Introduction’, and John Forbes, ‘Explanation of the Plates’
chapter 19|3 pages
D. M. Cammann, ‘An Historical Sketch of the Stethoscope’
chapter 20|3 pages
Charles Denison, ‘The Essentials of a Good Stethoscope’
chapter 21|5 pages
K. Schall, ‘Apparatus for Roentgen X Rays’ and ‘Franklinisation’
part 1.9|26 pages
Chemistry
chapter 22|20 pages
[Jane Marcet], ‘On Hydrogen’
part 1.10|23 pages
The laboratory revolution
chapter 23|2 pages
[Anon], ‘New Laboratory, University College, London’
chapter 24|3 pages
Joseph Dalton Hooker, ‘On the Plans of the New Laboratory for Investigations in Vegetable Physiology at Kew’
chapter 25|8 pages
[Anon], ‘The New Physical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge’
chapter 26|4 pages
Edward Cookworthy Robins, ‘Buildings for Applied Science and Art Instruction’
part 1.11|18 pages
Physics
chapter 27|14 pages
James Clerk Maxwell, ‘General Considerations Concerning Scientific Apparatus’
part 1.12|18 pages
Physiology
chapter 28|4 pages
J. Burdon Sanderson, ‘Biology: President's Opening Address’
chapter 29|4 pages
Thiselton Dyer, ‘On Various Apparatus for Investigations in Vegetable Physiology’
chapter 30|4 pages
Étienne-Jules Marey, ‘Apparatus for Registering Animal Movements’
chapter 31|2 pages
Edward Albert Schäfer, ‘On Some Recent Improvements in Recording Apparatus’
part 1.13|17 pages
Spectroscopy
chapter 32|4 pages
Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen, ‘Chemical Analysis by Spectrum-Observations’
chapter 33|6 pages
Robert Routledge, ‘The Spectroscope’, in Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century
chapter 34|1 pages
Image: ‘Spectrum Apparatus in Action, Showing the Spectra of the Metals’
part 1.14|24 pages
Astrophysics
chapter 35|9 pages
Agnes M. Clerke, ‘Methods of Research’
chapter 36|4 pages
Richard A. Proctor, ‘Proctor on the Big Lens: He Thinks the Lick Telescope will Disappoint Science’
chapter 37|5 pages
Alvan G. Clark, ‘Great Telescopes of the Future’
part 2|119 pages
Trade
part 2.1|28 pages
Catalogues
chapter 38|2 pages
W. and S. Jones, [Advertisement:] ‘To Philosophical Professors, Lecturers in Philosophy, and Private Students’
chapter 39|3 pages
John Joseph Griffin, ‘Preface’, in Chemical Recreations: A Compendium of Experimental Chemistry
chapter 40|2 pages
Richard Griffin and Co., [Advertisement:] ‘Griffin's Chemical Museum’
chapter 41|2 pages
Negretti and Zambra, ‘Preface’, in A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments: Explanatory of their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility
chapter 42|7 pages
Negretti and Zambra, Front Matter and ‘Preface’, in Encyclopaedic Illustrated and Descriptive Reference Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, Philosophical, Photographic, and Standard Meteorological Instruments
chapter 43|4 pages
Benjamin Pike, Jr., ‘Preface’, in Pike's Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical and Philosophical Instruments
chapter 44|2 pages
Image: The Shopfront of Philip Harris & Co. on Edmund St. in Birmingham, England, Along with Illustrations of their Shop Floors for Woodworking and Metalworking
part 2.2|26 pages
Anatomy
chapter 45|17 pages
George Knox (Trans.), Description of an Artificial Anatomical Figure, Constructed by the Chevalier Auzoux, M.D., Exhibited in 1832 before the King, in London
chapter 46|2 pages
George Dexter, ‘Preface’, in Catalogue of Anatomical Models Made by Dr. Auzoux, Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, Paris, and for Sale by George Dexter
chapter 47|1 pages
Image: Human Anatomical Model with Demountable Parts, by Auzoux, C. 1880
part 2.3|31 pages
Microscopy
chapter 48|2 pages
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, ‘Estimate of the Relative Value of the Microscopes of Chevalier, Ploessel, and Schiek’
chapter 49|11 pages
James Glaisher, ‘Microscopes’
chapter 50|5 pages
J. J. Plummer, ‘A Few Words on the Choice of a Microscope’
chapter 51|7 pages
Henri van Heurck, ‘Choice of a Microscope’ and ‘Objectives’, in The Microscope: its Construction and Management. Including Technique, Photo-Micrography, and the Past and Future of the Microscope
part 2.4|31 pages
Anthropometry
chapter 52|3 pages
Francis Galton, ‘Outfit for an Anthropometric Laboratory’
chapter 53|7 pages
Francis Galton, ‘On the Anthropometric Laboratory at the Late International Health Exhibition’
chapter 54|10 pages
Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, A Descriptive List of Anthropometric Apparatus, Consisting of Instruments for Measuring and Testing the Chief Physical Apparatus of the Human Body. Designed Under the Direction of Francis Galton
chapter 55|5 pages
[Anon], ‘A Morning with the Anthropometric Detectives: An Interview with Francis Galton, FRS’
part 3|126 pages
Display
part 3.1|23 pages
The Great Exhibition
chapter 56|4 pages
Robert Ellis, ‘Introduction’, to ‘Section II, Class 10: Philosophical, Musical, Horological, and Surgical Instruments’
chapter 57|7 pages
James Glaisher, ‘Introduction’ and ‘Conclusion’ to his Report on ‘Class X: Philosophical Instruments and Processes Depending upon their Use’
chapter 58|6 pages
James Glaisher, ‘Conclusion’, from his Lecture on ‘Philosophical Instruments and Processes, As Represented in the Great Exhibition’
part 3.2|61 pages
Museums of science
chapter 59|8 pages
Charles Daubeny, ‘Dream of the New Museum’
chapter 60|7 pages
[Robert Willis et al.], ‘Report to the Syndicate for Museums and Lecture Rooms, University of Cambridge’, 31 December 1853
chapter 61|7 pages
J. E. Gray, ‘Botany and Zoology, Including Physiology’
chapter 62|3 pages
W. Boyd Dawkins, ‘The Organisation of Natural History Museums’
chapter 63|16 pages
W. Stanley Jevons, ‘The Use and Abuse of Museums’
chapter 64|16 pages
W. H. Flower, ‘Modern Museums’ 1
part 3.3|26 pages
Scientific relics
chapter 65|2 pages
G. Wilson, ‘Address as President of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts at its Annual General Meeting, November 23, 1857’
chapter 66|6 pages
[Anon], ‘Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus’
chapter 67|3 pages
A. H. Lane-Fox [Pitt Rivers], ‘The Arrangement of Museums’
chapter 68|5 pages
William Spottiswoode, ‘Physics (Including Astronomy)’
chapter 69|6 pages
Henri Tresca, ‘Upon Objects Illustrating the History of Science, and the Means of Ensuring their Conservation’
part 3.4|12 pages
Expositions and world's fairs