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100 1  $a Brown, Daniel, $d 1961- $e author.
245 14 $a The poetry of Victorian scientists : $b style, science and nonsense / $c Daniel Brown.
260    $a Cambridge : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2013.
300    $a xi, 310 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm.
490 1  $a Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; $v 83
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"-- Provided by publisher.
520    $a "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"-- Provided by publisher.
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-301) and index.
505 0  $a 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.
650  0 $a English poetry $y 19th century $x History and criticism.
650  0 $a Scientists' writings.
650  0 $a Literature and science $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century.
600 10 $a Maxwell, James Clerk, $d 1831-1879 $x Literary art.
600 10 $a Tyndall, John, $d 1820-1893 $x Literary art.
600 10 $a Sylvester, James Joseph, $d 1814-1897 $x Literary art.
830  0 $a Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; $v 83.
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