The Starry Sky Within
The Starry Sky Within

Author: Anna Henchman

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014-02

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0199686963

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The Starry Sky Within is an innovative study of previously unexplored connections between nineteenth-century astronomy and British literature. Nineteenth-century astronomers revealed a staggeringly mobile world extending far beyond the scope of human vision and Henchman examines how this discovery inspired the novelists of the day.

Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 5
Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 5

Author: Gowan Dawson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1040251277

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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.