The Age of Wonder (84 page)

Charles Darwin,
Correspondence: Vol I, 1821-1836,
edited by Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith, CUP, 1985

Charles Darwin,
The Voyage of the Beagle, 1831-1836,
edited by Janet Browne and Michael Neve, Penguin Classics, 1989

Charles Darwin,
Autobiography,
edited by Michael Neve, Penguin Classics, 2002

Humphry Davy,
Consolations in Travel, or The Last Days of a Philosopher,
Murray’s Family Library, 1829, 1831

Michael Faraday,
Correspondence 1811-1831,
Vol 1, edited by Frank A.L.J. James, Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1991

Marie Boas Hall,
All Scientists Now,
CUP, 1984

James Hamilton,
Michael Faraday: The Life,
HarperCollins, 2002

John Herschel,
A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy,
1831

John Herschel,
Herschel at the Cape: Letters and Journals of John Herschel,
edited by David S. Evans, Texas, 1969

Richard Holmes,
Shelley: The Pursuit,
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974

Jack Morrell and Arnold Thackray,
Gentlemen of Science: The Early Years of the BAAS,
OUP, 1981

Steven Ruskin,
John Herschel’s Cape Voyage,
Ashgate, 2004

James Secord,
Victorian Sensation,
Chicago UP, 2000

Mary Shelley,
Frankenstein,
1st edition, Lackington, 1818; edited by Marilyn Butler, Oxford World’s Classics, 1993

Mary Shelley,
Frankenstein,
2nd edition, Bentley’s Popular Library, 1831; reprinted as composite edition, Penguin Classics, edited by Maurice Hindle, 1992

Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Prometheus Unbound: An Epic Poem in 4 Acts,
1819

Mary Somerville,
On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences,
1834

Thomas Sprat,
History of the Royal Society,
Kessinger, 2003

David Wooster,
Paula Trevelyan
(Paulina Jermyn), 1879

References

ABBREVIATIONS

CHA -
Caroline Herschel’s Autobiographies,
edited by Michael Hoskin, Scientific Publications Ltd, Cambridge, 2003

CHM -
Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Hesrchel,
edited by Mrs John Herschel, Murray, 1879

HD Archive - Humphry Davy Manuscripts and scientific instruments held at the Royal Institution, London

HD Mss Bristol - Humphry Davy Mss at Somerset Record Office, Bristol

HD Mss Truro - Humphry Davy Mss at the Cornwall Record Office, Truro

HD Works - Humphry Davy,
Collected Works,
edited by John Davy, 9 vols, 1839-40

JB Correspondence -
The Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks 1765-1820,
edited by Neil Chambers, 6 vols, Pickering & Chatto Ltd, 2007

JB Journal - Joseph Banks,
Manuscript of the Endeavour Journal 1768-1770,
University of New South Wales (internet transcript). See also
The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks,
edited by J.C. Beaglehole, Public Library of New South Wales, 2 vols, 1962; and Joseph Banks,
Endeavour Journal Ms, 1768-70
(facsimile edition, London Library)

JB Letters -
The Selected Letters of Sir Joseph Banks 1768-1820,
edited by Neil Chambers, Imperial College Press, Natural History Museum and Royal Society, The Banks Project, 2000

JD Fragments - Humphry Davy,
Fragmentary Remains,
edited by John Davy, 1858

JD Life -
The Life of Sir Humphry Davy,
by John Davy, 2 vols, 1836

JD Memoirs -
Memoirs of Sir Humphry Davy,
by John Davy, 1839 (included in vol 1 of HD Works)

Park Mss - ‘Letters and Papers relating to Mungo Park’s last Journey’, British Library Add Mss 37232.k and Add Mss 33230.f

WH Archive - Private archive, John Herschel-Shorland, Norfolk

WH Chronicle -
The Herschel Chronicle,
edited by his granddaughter Constance A. Lubbock, CUP, 1933

WH Mss - William Herschel Manuscripts, Cambridge University Library microfilm, from manuscripts held at the Royal Astronomical Society, London

WH Papers -
The Collected Scientific Papers of Sir William Herschel including Early Papers hitherto Unpublished,
edited by J.L.E. Dreyer, 2 vols, Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society, 1912

Prologue

1
The notion of ‘Romantic science’ has been pioneered by Jan Golinski,
Science as Public Culture, 1760-1820,
CUP, 1992; Andrew Cunningham and Nicholas Jardine,
Romanticism and the Sciences,
CUP, 1990; Mary Midgley,
Science and Poetry,
Routledge, 2001; Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee and Peter J. Kitson,
Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era,
CUP, 2004; and Tim Fulford (editor),
Romanticism and Science, 1773-1833,
a 5-vol anthology, Pickering, 2002

2
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Philosophical Lectures 1819,
edited by Kathleen Coburn, London, 1949; and
The Friend
1819, ‘Essays on the Principles of Method’, edited by Barbara E. Rooke, Princeton UP, 1969. See Richard Holmes,
Coleridge: Darker Reflections,
1998, pp480-4, 490-4

3
Wordsworth,
The Prelude,
1850, Book 3, lines 58-64

4
Coleridge,
Aids to Reflection,
1825; see Holmes, op. cit., pp548-9

5
Plato’s wonder as interpreted by Coleridge in ‘Spiritual Aphorism 9’,
Aids to Reflection,
1825, p236

Chapter 1: Joseph Banks in Paradise

1
JB Journal, 18 October 1768

2
Ibid., 11 April 1769

3
JB letter to Pennat, November 1768; from Harold Carter,
Sir Joseph Banks,
British Library, 1988, p76

4
JB Journal, 14 April 1769

5
Hector Cameron,
Sir Joseph Banks,
1952, p6

6
Vanessa Collingridge,
Captain Cook,
2003, p158

7
JB Journal, 2 May 1769

8
James Cook, Journal, 2 May 1769

9
JB Journal, 2 May 1769

10
JB Journal, ‘On the Customs of the South Sea Islands’, pp120-50, essay dated August 1769

11
Patrick O’Brian,
Joseph Banks,
Harvill, 1989, p65

12
Ibid.

13
John Gascoigne,
Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment,
1994, p17

14
Ibid., p88

15
Lady Mary Coke,
Journals,
August 1771, p437

16
JB letter to William Perrin, February 1768, from Gascoigne, p16

17
JB Journal, 10 September 1768

18
JB Journal, p23

19
O’Brian, p65

20
White, 8 October 1768; from Richard Mabey,
Gilbert White,
Century, 1986, p115

21
JB Journal, 16 January 1769

22
Ibid., 25 March 1769

23
Ibid., 17 April 1769

24
Sydney Parkinson,
A Journal of a Voyage in the South Seas,
1773, p15

25
JB Journal, 30 April 1769

26
Ibid., 29 April 1769

27
Ibid., 25 April 1769

28
Ibid., 22 April 1769

29
Ibid., 4 June 1769

30
James Cook, Journal, Tuesday, 6 June 1769

31
Parkinson, Journal, from Collingridge, p166

32
JB Journal, 10 May 1769

33
JB Journal, pp120-50, essay dated August 1769

34
JB Journal, 3 June 1769

35
Ibid., 28 April 1769

36
Ibid., 28 May 1769

37
Ibid., 29 May 1769

38
Ibid., 12 May 1769

39
Ibid., 10 June 1769

40
Ibid., 13 June 1769

41
Ibid., 14 June 1769

42
Ibid., 18 June 1769

43
Ibid., 24 June 1769

44
Ibid., 19 June 1769

45
Ibid., 22 June 1769

46
Parkinson, Journal, 1773, p32; and O’Brian, p101

47
James Cook, Journal, 30 June 1769

48
JB Journal, 28 June 1769

49
Ibid., 30 July 1769

50
Ibid., 29 June 1769

51
JB Letters, ‘Thoughts on the Manners of the Otaheite’, 1773, p332

52
JB Journal, 3 July 1769

53
Ibid., 12 July 1769

54
Ibid.

55
Ibid.

56
JB Letters, 6 December 1771, p20

57
Parkinson, Journal, 1773, p66

58
JB Journal, ‘On the South Seas’, August 1769, p124

59
Ibid., p128

60
Ibid., p132

61
Ibid.

62
JB Journal, (end) August 1770. Cook’s entry of the same date describes the natives as ‘in reality…far more happier than we Europeans’

63
JB Journal, 3 September 1770

64
O’Brian, pp145-6

65
JB Letters, 13 July 1771, p14

66
Gascoigne, p46

67
O’Brian, p66

68
Lady Mary Coke,
Journals,
August 1771, from Edward Smith,
Joseph Banks,
p22n

69
O’Brian, p151

70
Robert Thornton MD, Preface to
An Introduction to Botany,
by James Lee, 1810, ppxvii-iii

71
Gascoigne, p17

72
Thornton, 1810, ppxviii

73
Cameron, p44

74
Ibid., p 45

75
Ibid., p46

76
James Boswell,
Journal,
22 March 1772

77
John Hawkesworth, ‘Tahiti’, in
Voyages Undertaken in the Southern Hemisphere,
1773; the section can also be found in Fulford,
Romanticism and Science,
vol 4, pp158-9

78
JB, ‘Thoughts on the Manners of the Otaheite’, 1773, JB Letters, p330

79
JB letter, 30 May 1772, from O’Brian, p158

80
Lord Sandwich to Banks, 20 June 1772, in JB Letters, Appendix V, p354

81
JB Letters, Appendix V, p355

82
Rev William Sheffield, letter to Gilbert White, 2 December 1772, from O’Brian, p168

83
Daniel Solander, 16 November 1776,
Collected Correspondence,
edited by Edward Duyker and Per Tingbrand, Scandinavia University Press, 1995, p373

84
Carter, p153

85
Gascoigne, p50

86
Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee and Peter J. Kitson,
Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era,
CUP, 2004, p49

87
O’Brian, p181

88
Reproduced in the exhibition catalogue
Between Worlds: Voyagers to Britain 1700-1850,
National Portrait Gallery, 2007

89
British Academy Conference, 2006, my correspondence

90
William Cowper, 6 October 1783

91
William Cowper,
The Task,
1784, Book 4, ‘The Winter Evening’, lines 107-19

92
Ibid., Book 1, lines 654ff

93
John Byng, quoted in Beaglehole,
Journal of Sir Joseph Banks,
2 vols, 1962, p114

94
Gascoigne, p52

95
Collingridge,
Cook,
2002, pp405-15

96
Gascoigne, p46

97
Daniel Solander, 5 June 1779,
Collected Correspondence,
op. cit.

98
Gascoigne, p18

99
O’Brian, p308

100
Derek Howse,
Nevil Maskelyne,
1989, p161

101
Patricia Fara,
Joseph Banks: Sex, Botany and Empire,
2003, pp136-7

102
Coleridge to Samuel Purkis, 1 February 1803,
Collected Letters
vol 2, p919

103
JB Correspondence I, p331

104
JB Letters, 16 November 1784, pp77-80

105
Carter, p121

106
Gascoigne, p32

107
Baron Cuvier, ‘Éloge on Sir Joseph Banks’, 1820, from
Sir Joseph Banks and the Royal Society,
anonymous booklet, Royal Society, 1854, pp66-7

Chapter 2: Herschel on the Moon

1
WH Chronicle, p1

2
Account from Herschel’s Journal in CHM, p42

3
WH Chronicle, p73

4
Account from CHA

5
WH Papers 1; Armitage, p24

6
Michael J. Crowe,
The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750-1900,
CUP, 1986, p63

7
WH Mss 6279; also WH Chronicle, p76

8
WH Papers 1, pxc; also WH Chronicle, p77