Romanticism and Science, 1773-1833, Volume 4Tim Fulford |
Contents
The manufacture of ships blocks by Marc Brunel | 3 |
PART | 16 |
Kew Garden A Poem in Two Cantos | 49 |
Extract from Experiments upon Vegetables | 64 |
Phytologia Or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening | 71 |
An account of some experiments on the fecundation of vegetables | 95 |
Process for extracting sugar from the beet communicated in | 101 |
Observations on the natural history of the cuckoo in a letter | 117 |
Extract from An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by | 143 |
Extract from Observations Made During a Voyage Round | 161 |
Extract from An Account of Travels into the Interior | 177 |
Extracts from The History of Sumatra | 201 |
PART 19 | 223 |
Extract from An Account of the Regular Gradation in | 243 |
Remarks on certain strictures made on the first edition of this | 262 |
Extract from Outlines of the Physiognomical System of | 286 |
An excuse for not accepting the invitation of | 128 |
Extract from The Climate of London Deduced from | 135 |
Extracts from The Craniologists Review | 305 |
Common terms and phrases
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