The Philosophical Breakfast Club (73 page)

Colley, Linda.
Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837
. 2nd edition. New Haven and London: Yale Nota Bene, 2005.

Collier, Bruce.
The Little Engines That Could’ve: The Calculating Machines of Charles Babbage
. New York and London: Garland Publishing Co., 1990.

Creighton, Charles.
A History of Epidemics in Britain
. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1894.

Crimmins, James E. “Paley, William (1743–1805).”
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, September 2004, online edition January 2008:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21155
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Croarken, Mary. “Tabulating the Heavens: Computing the
Nautical Almanac
in 18th Century England.”
IEEE Annals in the History of Computing
25 (2003): 48–61.

Crosland, Maurice.
Science Under Control: The French Academy of Sciences, 1795–1914
. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Crowe, Michael J.,
The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750–1900
. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986. New edition, with new preface, Mineola, NY: Dover Press, 1999.

Crowe, Michael J., et al.
A Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John F. W. Herschel
. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Cunnington, C. Willett.
English Women’s Clothing in the Nineteenth Century: A Comprehensive Guide
. Mineola, NY: Dover Press, 1990.

Curtis, Rick.
The Backpacker’s Field Manual
. New York: Random House, 1999.

Danvers, F. C., et al.
Memorials of Old Haileybury College
. Westminster, UK: Archibald Constable and Co, 1894.

Darwin, Charles.
Autobiography
. Edited by Nora Barlow. New York: W.W. Norton, 1958.

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On the Origin of Species, by Natural Selection
. London: John Murray, 1859.

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On the Origin of Species
. 2nd edition. London: John Murray, 1860. Reprint, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Davy, Humphry. “An Account of a Method of Copying Paintings upon Glass, and of Making Profiles, by the Agency of Light upon Nitrate of Silver. Invented by T. Wedgwood, Esq.”
Journal of the Royal Institution
(1802): 170–74.

De Morgan, Augustus.
A Budget of Paradoxes; Reprinted, with the Author’s Additions, from the ‘Athenaeum.’
Edited by Sophia De Morgan. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1872.

De Morgan, Sophia E.
Memoir of Augustus De Morgan, with Selections from His Letters
. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1882.

De Quincey, Thomas. “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar.”
London Magazine
4 (1821): 293–312 and 353–79.

Desmond, Adrian, and James Moore.
Darwin
. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1994.

Dickens, Charles. “Full Report of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything.”
Bentley’s Miscellany
2 (1837): 397–413.

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The Household Narrative of Current Events for the Year 1854
. London: 16 Wellington Street North, 1854.

Dillard, Annie.
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992.

Distad, N. Merrill.
Guessing at Truth: The Life of Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855)
. Sheperdstown, WV: The Patmos Press, 1979.

Dodge, N. S. “Memoir of Sir John Frederick William Herschel.”
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution … for the Year 1871
. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1873, pp. 125–26.

Drake, Stillman.
Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
. New York: Anchor Books, 1957.

Ducheyne, Steffen. “Whewell’s Tidal Researches: Scientific Practise and Philosophical Methodology.”
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part A
41(2010): 26–40.

Edgeworth, Maria.
Letters from England, 1813–1844
. Edited by Christina Colvin. Cambridge, UK: Clarendon Press, 1971.

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The Life and Letters
. Edited by August J. C. Hare. 2 vols. London: Edward Arnold, 1894.

Eliot, George.
The George Eliot Letters
. Edited by Gordon S. Haught. 9 vols. New Haven and Oxford: Yale University Press and Oxford University Press, 1954–78.

Essinger, James.
Jacquard’s Web: How a Hand Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age
. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Evans, David S. “The Great Moon Hoax.”
Sky and Telescope
(September 1981): 196–98 and (October 1981): 308–11.

Evans, David S., et al.
Herschel at the Cape. Diaries and Correspondence of Sir John Herschel, 1834–1838
. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1969.

Evans, Eric J.
The Contentious Tithe: The Tithe Problem and English Agriculture, 1750–1850
. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.

Falconer, Isobel. “Henry Cavendish: The Man and the Measurement.”
Measurement Science and Technology
10 (1999): 470–77.

Fara, Patricia.
Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks
. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Farrington, Benjamin.
Francis Bacon, Philosopher of Industrial Science
. London: Lawrence and Wishart, Ltd., 1951.

Fisch, Menachem. “ ‘The Emergency Which Has Arrived’: The Problematic History of Nineteenth-Century British Algebra—A Programmatic Outline.”
British Journal for the History of Science
27 (1994): 247–76.

Flanders, Judith.
Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
. London: Harper Press, 2006.

Franksen, Ole Immanuel.
Mr. Babbage’s Secret: The Tale of a Cypher—and APL
. Helsinki: Strandberg, 1984.

Galton, Francis.
Memories of My Life
. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1909.

Garber, Daniel.
Descartes’s Metaphysical Physics
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Gardner, Martin.
Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972.

Garland, Martha McMakin.
Cambridge Before Darwin: The Ideal of a Liberal Education, 1800–1860
. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

Geiringer, Karl.
Haydn: A Creative Life
. 3rd edition. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982.

Glick, Thomas, and David Kohn, eds.
Darwin on Evolution
. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Press, 1996.

Goldberg, Vicki, ed.
Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present
. Santa Fe: University of New Mexico Press, 1988.

Goldstine, Herman H.
The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann
. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972.

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. “A Brief History of the Computer.”
Proceedings of the APS
121 (October 1977): 339–45.

Golinski, Jan.
Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760–1820
. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Gordon, Robert B. “Simeon North, John Hall, and Mechanized Manufacturing.”
Technology and Culture
30 (1989): 179–88.

Grattan-Guinness, I. “Work for the Hairdressers: The Production of de Prony’s Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables.”
Annals of the History of Computing
12 (1990): 177–85.

Greene, Brian.
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
. New York: Vintage Books, 2000.

Guicciardini, Niccolò.
The Development of Newtonian Calculus in Britain 1700–1800
. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Hall, A. Rupert.
The Cambridge Philosophical Society: A History 1819–1969
. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1969.

Hall, Marie Boas.
All Scientists Now: The Royal Society in the 19th Century
. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Hannavy, John, ed.
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography
. 2 vols. London: Routledge, 2007.

Harcourt, Vernon. “Address.”
Report of the First and Second Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at York in 1831 and at Oxford in 1832
. London: Albermarle Street, 1833, pp. 22–38.

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. “Presidential Address.”
Report of the Birmingham Meeting of the BAAS, 1839
. London: Albermarle Street, 1840, pp. 3–69.

Hare, Augustus J. C.
The Story of My Life
. 4 vols. London: George Allen, 1896–1900.

Hare, Augustus J. C., ed.
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth
. 2 vols. London: Edward Arnold, 1895.

Harman, P. M.
The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell
. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Head, George.
A Home Tour Through the Manufacturing Districts of England, in the Summer of 1835
. London: John Murray, 1836.

Henchman, Anna. “The Globe We Groan In: Astronomical Discourse and Stellar Decay in ‘In Memoriam.’ ”
Victorian Poetry
41 (Spring 2003), pp. 29–45.

Herschel, J. F. W.
Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy
. London: Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green and John Taylor, 1830.

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. “Light.”
Encyclopedia Metropolitana
2 (1830): 341–586.

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. “On the Action of Light in Determining the Precipitation of Muriate of Platinum by Lime-Water.” Read before the BAAS, June 22, 1832.
The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science
1 (1832): 58–60.

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. “Letter to the Rev. William Whewell, President of the Section, on the
Chemical Action of the Solar Rays.”
British Association Report for 1839
, pt. 2. London: Albermarle Street, 1840, pp. 9–11.

———. “On the Chemical Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Preparations of Silver and Other Substances.”
Transactions of the Royal Society of London
(January 1840): 1–59.

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. Letter.
The Athenaeum
977 (October 1, 1846): 1019.

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Results of Astronomical Observations Made During the Years 1834, 5, 6, 7, 8 at the Cape of Good Hope: Being the completion of a telescopic survey of the whole surface of the visible heavens
. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1847.

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. “Instantaneous Photography.”
The Photographic News
4 (May 11, 1860): 13.

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Physical Geography
. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1861.

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Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects
. London and New York: Alexander Strahan, 1866.

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. “Photography in Natural Colors.”
Photographic News
10 (January 5, 1866): 5–6.

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The
Iliad
of Homer, Translated into English Accentuated Hexameters
. London and Cambridge, UK: Macmillan, 1866.

———
. “The Reverend William Whewell, D.D.”
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
26 (1867–68): li–lxi.

Herschel, J. F. W., et al. “Report of the Committee Appointed by the Council of the Royal Society to Consider … Mr. Babbage’s Calculating Engine, and to Report Thereon.” February 1829. In H. P. Babbage, ed.
Babbage’s Calculating Engines
, pp. 233–35.

Herschel, Mary Cornwallis.
Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel
. 2nd edition. London: John Murray, 1879.

Hockney, David.
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
. New and expanded edition. New York: Viking Studio, 2006.

Hodgson, Geoffrey.
How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science
. London: Routledge, 2001.

Holmes, Richard.
The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science
. New York: Vintage, 2010.

Hubell, J., and R. Smith. “Neptune in America: Negotiating a Discovery.”
Journal for the History of Astronomy
23 (1992): 261–91.

Hufbauer, Karl.
Exploring the Sun: Solar Science Since Galileo
. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Huggins, William, and W. A. Miller. “On the Spectra of Some of the Nebulae.”
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
154 (1864): 437–44.

Huler, Scott.
Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry
. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004.

Hume, David.
A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects
. 3 vols. London: John Noon, 1739–40.

Hyman, Anthony.
Charles Babbage, Pioneer of the Computer
. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Jackson, T. V. “British Income Circa 1800.”
The Economic History Review
, n.s. 52 (1999): 257–83.

James, Frank A. J. L. “Introduction.”
Christmas at the Royal Institution: An Anthology of Lecture
. Edited by Frank A. J. L. James. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2007, pp. xv–xvi.

Jardine, Lisa, and Alan Stewart.
Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon
. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.

Johnson, L. G.
Richard Jones Reconsidered: A Centenary Tribute
. London: Privately printed, 1955.

Johnston, Stephen. “Making the Arithmometer Count.”
Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society
52 (1997): 12–21.

Jones, R. A.
Foreign Office, Diplomatic and Consular Sketches, Reprinted from “Vanity Fair.”
London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1883.

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. “Hammond, Edmund.”
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
,
www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12155
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