Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse

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In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for discoveries in branches of science such as botany, astronomy and medicine to be described in book-length treatises in verse. By the end of the 19th century this mode of popularising science was falling from favour as the studies of science and the humanities diverged and study became more specialised.This small selection of somewhat lighter-hearted verse written by distinguished scientists and mathematicians of the day includes poems by James Clerk Maxwell, William J. Macquorn Rankine and James Joseph Sylvester. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

Capitoli (13)

1To F. W. F.

544

2Lines Written Under the Conviction that it is Not Wise to Read Mathematics in November After One's Fire is Out

298

3A Problem in Dynamics

383

4In Memory of Edward Wilson: Rigid Body

5Valentine by a Telegraph Clerk (Male) to a Telegraph Clerk (Female)

6Lectures to Women on Physical Science

313

7To the Chief Musician upon Nabla

260

8To the Committee of the Cayley Portrait Fund

118

9Molecular Evolution

144

10The Mathematician in Love

217

11The Three-foot Rule: a Song about Standards of Measure

139

12To a Missing Member of a Family Group of Terms in an Algebraical Formula

13The Infant Metaphysician

149

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