CONTENTS

pp vii-vii

Dedication

pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xiv

List of Figures

pp xv-xvi

Introduction: John Tyndall, Scientific Naturalism and Modes of Communication

pp 1-14

Part I - John Tyndall

1 - Saving the World in the Age of Entropy: John Tyndall and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

pp 15-32

2 - Getting Past the Greenhouse: John Tyndall and the Nineteenth-Century History of Climate Change

pp 33-50

3 - Tyndall, Lewes and Popular Representations of Scientific Authority in Victorian Britain

pp 51-70

Part II - Scientific Naturalism

4 - Herbert Spencer and the Metaphysical Roots of Evolutionary Naturalism

pp 71-88

5 - Evolutionary Mathematics: William Kingdon Clifford's Use of Spencerian Evolutionism

pp 89-112

6 - The ‘Great Plan of the Visible Universe’: William Huggins, Evolutionary Naturalism and the Nature of the Nebulae

pp 113-136

7 - Alfred Newton: The Scientific Naturalist Who Wasn't

pp 137-156

Part III - Communicating Science

8 - Corresponding Naturalists

pp 157-170

9 - Tyndall and Stokes: Correspondence, Referee Reports and the Physical Sciences in Victorian Britain

pp 171-186

10 - Science at the Metaphysical Society: Defining Knowledge in the 1870s

pp 187-206

Notes

pp 207-246

Index

pp 247-256