The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Trevor Levere, Affinities That Matter....Pages 1-7
Elements, Instruments, and Menstruums: Boerhaave’s Imponderable Fire Between Chemical Masterpiece and Physical Axiom....Pages 9-46
At the Medical Edge or, The Beddoes Effect....Pages 47-64
“Men of Letters” and “Men of Press Copies”: The Cultures of James Watt’s Copying Machine....Pages 65-79
Poetry, Chemistry, and Wisdom....Pages 81-94
Facts or Fantasies in the Chemistry Lecture Theatre?....Pages 95-115
Poetry in War and War in Nature. From Vauban to Naturphilosophie to Clausewitz....Pages 117-134
John Herschel’s Geology: The Cape of Good Hope in the 1830s....Pages 135-150
More Food for Thought: Mill, Coleridge and the Dismal Science of Economics....Pages 151-162
“These Can Not All Have an Interest for England”: Symmetry, Beauty and the Trouble with Romanticism in Britain....Pages 163-180
Science Born of Poison, Fire and Smoke: Chemical Warfare and the Origins of Big Science....Pages 181-200
Politics, Morality, Innovation, and Misrepresentation in Physical Science and Technology....Pages 201-217
Fishing an Extreme Environment: Science, Sovereignty and Hudson Bay....Pages 219-254
Collectors, Displays and Replicas in Context: What We Can Learn from Provenance Research in Science Museums....Pages 255-275
Context, Connections and Culture: The History of Science in Canada as a Field of Study....Pages 277-299
Back Matter....Pages 301-310