Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain by Pence, Charles H.;

Short description:

This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. This volume uses primary sources and editorial commentary to examine the topics of geology and evolution in this period.

Long description:

This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. Over the course of the nineteenth century, emblematically but not exclusively represented by the work of Charles Darwin, natural science reconfigured the ways in which practitioners would treat the sciences of "deep time" – especially geology and the new theory of natural selection. This volume uses primary sources and editorial commentary to examine the topics of geology and evolution in this period. This title will be of great interest to students of the history of philosophy and the history of science.

Table of Contents:

Volume 2: Deep Time: Geology and Evolution

General Introduction

Volume 2 Introduction

Part 1: The Continental Traditions

1. Georges Cuvier, “View of the Relations Which Exist Amongst the Variations of the Several Organs”, from Lectures on Comparative Anatomy (1802 [1800]), pp. 46–61

2. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy¸ tr. Hugh Elliott (1809, tr. 1914), pp. 19–21, 35–39, 56–61, 112–114, 126–127

3. Richard Owen, “Report on the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton”, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol. 16 (1846), pp. 169–170, 173–176, 248–251, 339–340

Part 2: Uniformity and Catastrophe in Geology

4. John Playfair, Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (1802), pp. 510–528

5. William Buckland, “Volcanic Rocks, Basalt and Trap” and “Primary Stratified Rocks”, from Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1836), pp. 44–56

6. Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, Vol. 1 (1830), pp. 75–91

7. Adam Sedgwick, “Address to the Geological Society, Delivered on the Evening of the 18th of February 1831, by the Rev. Professor Sedgwick, M.A. F.R.S. &c. On Retiring from the President’s Chair”, The Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 9, pp. 298–308, 312–317

Part 3: The History of Life

8. William Buckland, Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1836), pp. 538–552

9. Robert Chambers, “Hypothesis of the Development of the Vegetable and Animal Kingdom”, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation 4th ed., (1845), pp. 195–216

10. Adam Sedgwick, “[Review of] Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation”, The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 82 (1845), pp. 1–10

11. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (excerpts), (1859), pp. 7–14, 34–43, 80–96, 111–130, 279–302, 329–336

12. Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwinism (1889), pp. 445–446, 461–478

Part 4: After Darwin: Responding to the Origin

13. Fleeming Jenkin, “[Review of] The Origin of Species”, North British Review, Vol. 46 (June 1867), pp. 277–286, 317–318

14. Adam Sedgwick, “Objections to Mr. Darwin’s Theory of the Origin of Species”, The Spectator, Vol. 33 (1860), pp. 285–286

15. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, “Sex and Evolution”, The Sexes Throughout Nature (1875), pp. 11–23

16. St. George Jackson Mivart, On the Genesis of Species, 2nd ed. (1871), pp. 290–302

Bibliography

Index