Like Cooking a Dumpling
Mike Jay: Victorian Science Writing, 20 November 2014
Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age
by James Secord.
Oxford, 306 pp., £18.99, March 2014,978 0 19 967526 5 Show More
by James Secord.
Oxford, 306 pp., £18.99, March 2014,
“... and eventually he fled to exile in America. Davy’s previous employer, the chemist and physician Thomas Beddoes, had also been confined to the margins of his profession because of his support for the French Revolution. Davy’s address to the Royal Institution relaunched science for the new century with an assurance to the English hierarchy that, under his ... ”