The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy

Langue : anglais

Edité par Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2020

0198705867 / 9780198705864

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This is the first collected edition of the letters of Humphry Davy. Davy is a significant figure in both the history of science and literary history. One of the foremost chemists of the early nineteenth century, he was the first person to inhale nitrous oxide. He pioneered electrochemistry, using the Voltaic pile to isolate more chemical elements than any other scientist; and he invented the miners' safety lamp that came to be known as the 'Davy lamp'. Hislectures and papers played a key part in the professionalization of science, in the growth of scientific institutions, and in the emergence of scientific disciplines. He was the protege of Thomas Beddoesand Joseph Banks, and the mentor of Michael Faraday. He was also a poet, and a friend of poets, including Wordsworth, Southey, Scott, and Byron. The edition contains fully annotated transcriptions of correspondence (much previously unpublished) with such figures as Joseph Banks, Thomas Beddoes, Joens Jacob Berzelius, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Faraday, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, the Herschels, the Marcets, Marc-Auguste Pictet, Nicolas-Theodore deSaussure, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, William Hyde Wollaston, and Thomas Young. The edition throws new light on Davy, on the histories of science and literature, and on the social history of theearly nineteenth century. It illuminates scientific controversies over the safety lamp, the Board of Longitude, the Geological Society, and the Royal Society. It offers new perspectives on the 1790s poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey. It illuminates women's literary networks, reveals the links between science and government, and casts light on provincial and dissenting intellectual networks, among Quakers and Unitarians. This is the first collected edition of the letters of Humphry Davy (1778-1829). It contains fully annotated transcriptions of Davy's correspondence (much previously unpublished) with many thinkers, writers, and scientists of his day, throwing new light on Davy, on the histories of science and literature, and on social history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Titre
The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy
Auteur
Tim Fulford
Éditeur
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Année de publication
2020
État de l'article
new
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0198705867
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780198705864

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