Event 3 - Reading List
Reading for Day 1: Royal Institution
David Knight's Plenary Lecture:
What did people do all day? What can sources tell us about scientific life in the Romantic Age?
- R. Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, London: HarperCollins, 2008; chapter 6.
- M. Jay, The Atmosphere of Heaven: the Unnatural Experiments of Dr. Beddoes and his Sons of Genius, New Haven: Yale U.P., 2009; section on Davy.
- D. Knight, The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity, 1789-1914, Cambridge: Polity, 2009; chapters 1 & 2.
- W. St Clair, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, Cambridge: C.U.P., 2004; chapters 10 & 11.
Michael Hunter’s seminar:
- Michael Hunter, Editing Early Modern Texts: An Introduction to Principles and Practice (Palgrave 2007; paperback 2009; ISBN 978 0 230 57476 2)
- Michael Hunter, ‘Whither Editing?’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 34 (2003), 805-20 ‘Digitizing Correspondence Workshop Report’ (17 September 2009), available under report
Reading for Day 2: National Maritime Museum
Link here to workshop activity
Required Reading:
- Sam Alberti, ‘Objects and the museum’, Isis 96 (2005), 559-71
- Simon Naylor, 'Introduction: historical geographies of science - places, contexts, cartographies', British Journal for the History of Science 38 (2005), 1-12
Suggested reading for sessions:
- Reading for Crosbie Smith’s session
- Joseph Conrad, ‘The Partner’ – short story
Reading for John McAleer’s session:
- Bernard Smith , 'European vision and the South Pacific', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 13 (1950), 65-100 and/or
- Harriet Guest, 'The great distinction: figures of the exotic in the work of William Hodges', Oxford Art Journal 12:2 (1989), 36-58 [both of these available on jstore]
Reading for Gillian Hutchinson’s session:
- J.B Harley, Chapter 2: 'Maps, knowledge and power' in New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography (2001)
