Book contents
- The Poetry of Victorian Scientists
- Series page
- The Poetry of Victorian Scientists
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Professionals and amateurs, work and play: William Rowan Hamilton, Edward Lear and James Clerk Maxwell
- Chapter 2 Edinburgh natural philosophy and Cambridge mathematics
- Chapter 3 Knowing more than you think: James Clerk Maxwell on puns, analogies and dreams
- Chapter 4 Red Lions: Edward Forbes and James Clerk Maxwell
- Chapter 5 Popular science lectures: ‘A Tyndallic Ode’
- Chapter 6 John Tyndall and ‘the Scientific Use of the Imagination’
- Chapter 7 ‘Molecular Evolution’: Maxwell, Tyndall and Lucretius
- Chapter 8 James Joseph Sylvester: the romance of space
- Chapter 9 James Joseph Sylvester: the calculus of forms
- Chapter 10 Science on Parnassus
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index
Chapter 4 - Red Lions: Edward Forbes and James Clerk Maxwell
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- The Poetry of Victorian Scientists
- Series page
- The Poetry of Victorian Scientists
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Professionals and amateurs, work and play: William Rowan Hamilton, Edward Lear and James Clerk Maxwell
- Chapter 2 Edinburgh natural philosophy and Cambridge mathematics
- Chapter 3 Knowing more than you think: James Clerk Maxwell on puns, analogies and dreams
- Chapter 4 Red Lions: Edward Forbes and James Clerk Maxwell
- Chapter 5 Popular science lectures: ‘A Tyndallic Ode’
- Chapter 6 John Tyndall and ‘the Scientific Use of the Imagination’
- Chapter 7 ‘Molecular Evolution’: Maxwell, Tyndall and Lucretius
- Chapter 8 James Joseph Sylvester: the romance of space
- Chapter 9 James Joseph Sylvester: the calculus of forms
- Chapter 10 Science on Parnassus
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index
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- The Poetry of Victorian ScientistsStyle, Science and Nonsense, pp. 89 - 109Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013