The poetry of Victorian scientists (Record no. 88886)
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| Canceled/invalid LC control number | 2012020239 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781107023376 (hardback) |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781139612524 (electronic bk.) |
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| System control number | (MiAaPQ)EBC1099894 |
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| System control number | (Au-PeEL)EBL1099894 |
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| System control number | (CaPaEBR)ebr10644366 |
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| System control number | (CaONFJC)MIL426056 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)824118080 |
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| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Transcribing agency | MiAaPQ |
| Modifying agency | MiAaPQ |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE | |
| Geographic area code | e-uk--- |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PR595.S33 |
| Item number | B76 2013 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 821/.80936 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Brown, Daniel, |
| -- | 1961- |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The poetry of Victorian scientists |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | style, science and nonsense / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Daniel Brown. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Cambridge : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2013. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xi, 310 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 440 #0 - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; |
| Volume/sequential designation | 83 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Machine 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. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "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"-- |
| Assigning source | Provided by publisher. |
| 533 ## - REPRODUCTION NOTE | |
| Type of reproduction | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | English poetry |
| Chronological subdivision | 19th century |
| General subdivision | History and criticism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Scientists' writings. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Literature and science |
| Geographic subdivision | Great Britain |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 19th century. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1099894">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1099894</a> |
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