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  1. The poetry of Victorian scientists
    style, science and nonsense
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    TU Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek - Stadtmitte
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1107023378; 9781107023376
    RVK Categories: HL 1161 ; HL 1191
    Series: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
    Subjects: Englisch; Lyrik; Naturwissenschaftler
    Scope: XI, 310 S.
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    Literaturverz. S. 287 - 301

  2. <<The>> poetry of Victorian scientists
    style, science and nonsense
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 9781107023376; 1107023378
    Series: Cambridge studies in nineteenth century literature and culture ; 83
    Subjects: English poetry--19th century--History and criticism; Scientists' writings; Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century
    Scope: XI, 310 S. : Ill.
  3. The poetry of Victorian scientists
    style, science and nonsense
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.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... more

    Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Bibliothek
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    "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"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781107023376
    Other identifier:
    9781107023376
    RVK Categories: HL 1191 ; HL 1031
    Series: Cambridge studies in nineteenth century literature and culture ; 83
    Subjects: English poetry; Scientists' writings; Literature and science
    Other subjects: Array; Scientists' writings; Array
    Scope: XI, 310 S., Ill., 23 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. 287 - 301

    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.