Science Before Darwin - edited by I. Bernard Cohen & Howard Jones - Hardcover

Science Before Darwin: An Anthology of British Scientific Writing in the Early 19th Century
Edited by I. Bernard Cohen & Howard Mumford Jones

hardcover in good used condition

"Now that the gulf between the arts and the sciences causes such concern, it seems timely to publish a collection of scientific prose whose literary quality is outstanding. Howard Mumford Jones, Professor I. Bernard Cohen, his colleague in the Department of Science, believe that British scientific writing of the first sixty years or so of the nineteenth century has great literary and historical merit. But it is not easily available to the public. They have accordingly compiled an anthology of the best, written before extreme technicality began to encumber scientific prose, at a time when scientists felt it their duty not simply to state technical problems, but also to interpret the physical world as philosophers."