Book Description:
This important and uncommon journal was edited by the eminent scientist Sir David Brewster (1781 1868) and the mineralogist Robert Jameson (1774 1854). Spanning seven years, this complete run contains 888 articles by leading scientists of the period, covering the subjects of chemistry, optics, electricity, magnetism, practical mechanics, inventions, scientific instruments, natural history, etc. Many of these articles are abstracts of new books written by the authors themselves and as such an invaluable insight into the original thoughts and motivations of this huge gathering of scientists whose ideas crossed from the Enlightenment into the Industrial Revolution.Famous contributors include the editors David Brewster (optics) and Robert Jameson (mineralogy), plus Charles Babbage (1791 1871, mathematician and scientific mechanician), J. F. W. Herschel (1792 1871, astronomer), Robert Stevenson (1772 1850, engineer and lighthouse builder), William Scoresby (1760 1829, Arctic navigator), Alexander Humboldt (1769 1859, naturalist and explorer), Thomas Stewart Traill (1781 1862, professor of medical jurisprudence), Humphry Davy (1778 1829, natural philosopher), Robert Knox (1791 1862, anatomist, ethnologist), William Wallace (1768 1843, mathematician), Andrew Fyfe (1792 1861, chemist), Robert Christison (1797 1882, toxicologist), John Franklin (1786 1847, Arctic explorer), and many others.Every volume contains a full contents list and index as well as a digest of scientific notices selected from other contemporary journals. With an average of ten plates per volume, including some coloured plans and fold outs, this is a handsome and fine journal that will be of special interest to research libraries covering the development of eighteenth and nineteenth century scientific thought in Britain. important and rare sourcebook of nearly 900 scientific articles edited by eminent scientists Sir David Brewster and Robert Jameson every volume complete with full contents list, index and engraved illustrations
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