000887951 000__ 03199cam\a2200409\a\4500 000887951 001__ 887951 000887951 005__ 20210515172850.0 000887951 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000887951 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000887951 008__ 120517s2013\\\\enka\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000887951 010__ $$z 2012020239 000887951 020__ $$z9781107023376 000887951 020__ $$z9781139612524 $$q(electronic book) 000887951 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC1099894 000887951 035__ $$a(Au-PeEL)EBL1099894 000887951 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10644366 000887951 035__ $$a(CaONFJC)MIL426056 000887951 035__ $$a(OCoLC)824118080 000887951 040__ $$aMiAaPQ$$cMiAaPQ$$dMiAaPQ 000887951 043__ $$ae-uk--- 000887951 050_4 $$aPR595.S33$$bB76 2013 000887951 08204 $$a821/.80936$$223 000887951 1001_ $$aBrown, Daniel,$$d1961- 000887951 24514 $$aThe poetry of Victorian scientists$$h[electronic resource] :$$bstyle, science and nonsense /$$cDaniel Brown. 000887951 260__ $$aCambridge :$$bCambridge University Press,$$c2013. 000887951 300__ $$axi, 310 p. :$$bill. 000887951 440_0 $$aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;$$v83 000887951 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000887951 5058_ $$aMachine generated contents note: 1. Professionals and amateurs, work and play: William Rowan Hamilton, Edward Lear and James Clerk Maxwell; 2. Edinburgh natural philosophy and Cambridge mathematics; 3. Knowing more than you think: James Clerk Maxwell on puns, analogies and dreams; 4. Red Lions: Edward Forbes and James Clerk Maxwell; 5. Popular science lectures: 'A Tyndallic Ode'; 6. John Tyndall and 'The Scientific Use of the Imagination'; 7. 'Molecular Evolution': Maxwell, Tyndall and Lucretius; 8. James Joseph Sylvester: the romance of space; 9. James Joseph Sylvester: the calculus of forms; 10. Science on Parnassus; Bibliography; Index. 000887951 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000887951 520__ $$a"A surprising number of Victorian scientists wrote poetry. Many came to science as children through such games as the spinning-top, soap-bubbles and mathematical puzzles, and this playfulness carried through to both their professional work and writing of lyrical and satirical verse. This is the first study of an oddly neglected body of work that offers a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science. Such figures as the physicist James Clerk Maxwell toy with ideas of nonsense, as through their poetry they strive to delineate the boundaries of the new professional science and discover the nature of scientific creativity. Also considering Edward Lear, Daniel Brown finds the Victorian renaissances in research science and nonsense literature to be curiously interrelated. Whereas science and literature studies have mostly focused upon canonical literary figures, this original and important book conversely explores the uses literature was put to by eminent Victorian scientists"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000887951 650_0 $$aEnglish poetry$$y19th century$$xHistory and criticism. 000887951 650_0 $$aScientists' writings. 000887951 650_0 $$aLiterature and science$$zGreat Britain$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000887951 852__ $$bebk 000887951 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete $$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1099894$$zOnline Access 000887951 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:887951$$pGLOBAL_SET 000887951 980__ $$aEBOOK 000887951 980__ $$aBIB 000887951 982__ $$aEbook 000887951 983__ $$aOnline