Fact and Feeling: Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
In his famous lecture on “The Two Cultures,” C.P. Snow argued that the modern intellectual gulf between writers and artists on the one hand, scientists and engineers on the other, had its roots in the nineteenth century. Jonathan Smith challenges that view by examining the cultural debate about scientific method in nineteenth-century Britain.\ Focusing on the status of Francis Bacon and his inductive methodology, Smith shows that literary figures were involved, both...
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction31The Science of Science: Baconian Induction in Nineteenth-Century Britain112Reweaving the Rainbow: Romantic Methodologies of Poetry and Science453Seeing through Lyell's Eyes: The Uniformitarian Imagination and The Voyage of the Beagle924The "Wonderful Geological Story": Uniformitarianism and The Mill on the Floss1215Ruskin's "Analysis of Natural and Pictorial Forms"1526"Euclid Honourably Shelved": Edwin Abbott's Flatland and the Methods of Non-Euclidean Geometry1807"The Methods Have Been of Interest": Sherlock Holmes, Scientific Detective211Notes241Index271
\ BooknewsConsidering science as a form of cultural discourse like literature, music, and religion, explores the contacts and affinities between scientists and humanists in 19th-century Britain. The topics include Baconian induction, romantic methodologies of poetry and science, the uniformitarian imagination and The Voyage of the Beagle, John Ruskin, Edwin Abbot, and the quintessential Victorian merging of science and literature, Sherlock Holmes. Paper edition (unseen), $22.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
