Literature and Science, 1660-1834, Part I. Volume 2

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-138-75423-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 763 g

This volume reproduces primary texts which embody the polymathic nature of the literature of science, and provides editorial overviews and extensive references, to provide a resource for specialized academics and researchers with a broad cultural interest in the long 18th century.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hawley, Judith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements, Introduction, Abraham Cowley, ‘Ode upon Dr. Harvey’, Verses, Lately Written Upon Several Occasions (1663), Edward Baynard, Health, a Poem. Shewing how to procure, preserve and restore it. To which is annex’d The Doctor’s Decade (1740), William Stukeley, Of the Spleen, its Description and History, Uses and Diseases, Particularly the Vapours, with their remedy (1723), including Anne Finch, ‘A Pindaric Ode on the Spleen’, John Arbuthnot, Know Yourself (Gnothi seauton) (1734), George Cheyne, An Essay on Regimen (1740), John Armstrong, The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem, 1st edition (1744), Book 1 ‘Air’, Book 4 ‘Passions’, James Makittrick Adair, Medical Cautions, for the Consideration of Invalids (1786), Essay 1 ‘Fashionable Diseases’, Thomas Beddoes, Hygeia, or Essays Moral & Medical on the causes affecting the personal state of our middling and affluent classes (1802), Volume 1, Essay 3, ‘On Individuals, composing our Affluent and Easy Classes’, British Characteristics and Schools for Girls, Thomas Trotter, A View of the Nervous Temperament (1807), Introduction, Chapters 1 and 2, Bibliography, Endnotes

Über Autor(innen)

Judith Hawley