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Secord, James A.
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. “Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.”
Edinburgh Review
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. “Objections to Mr. Darwin’s Theory on the Origin of Species.”
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Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society
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. “William Whewell.” Pp. 1365–74 in vol. 20 of
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. “On the Double Crystals of Flour Spa.” Paper presented November 26, 1821.
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. “Mathematical Exposition of Some of the Leading Doctrines in Mr. Ricardo’s
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. “Lyell’s
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. “Jones—
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. “Modern Science—Inductive Philosophy.” Review of Herschel’s
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. “Lyell’s
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Quarterly Review
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Astronomy and General Physics, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology
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. “Address.”
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———. “Mrs. Somerville on the Connexion of the Sciences.”
Quarterly Review
51 (1834): 54–68.
———. “On the Empirical Laws of the Tides in the Port of London, with Some Reflections on the Theory.”
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
124 (1834): 15–45.
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Architectural Notes on German Churches; with Notes Written During an Architectural Tour in Picardy and Normandy
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———. “Researches on the Tides—Sixth Series: On the Results of an Extensive System of Tide Observations Made on the Coasts of Europe and America in June 1835.”
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
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The History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Time
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———. “On the Results of Observations Made with a New Anemometer.” Read May 1, 1837.
Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
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———. “Presidential Address.” Delivered February 16, 1838.
Proceedings of the Geological Society of London
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Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon Their History
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. “Remarks on a Review of the
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On the Philosophy of Discovery
, pp. 482–91.
———. “The Bakerian Lecture. Researches on the Tides—Thirteenth Series: On the Tides of the Pacific, and on the Diurnal Inequality.”
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
138 (1848): 1–29.
———. “Inaugural Lecture, the General Bearing of the Great Exhibition on the Progress of Art and Science.”
The American Journal of Science and Arts
. 2nd series, vol. 13, May 1852, pp. 352–70.
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Elements of Morality, Including Polity
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Of the Plurality of Worlds: An Essay. Also, a Dialogue on the Same Subject
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Novum Organon Renovatum
. London: John W. Parker, 1858.
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. “Prefatory Notice.”
Literary Remains Consisting of Lectures and Tracts on Political Economy by the Late Rev. Richard Jones
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On the Philosophy of Discovery: Chapters Historical and Critical
. London: John W. Parker, 1860.
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Six Lectures on Political Economy
. Cambridge, UK: The University Press, 1862.
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Astronomy and General Physics, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology
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Sonnet Series and Itinerary Poems
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Wright, J. M. F.
Alma Mater; or, Seven Years at the University of Cambridge, by a Trinity Man
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Wrigley, E. A., and R. S. Schofield.
The Population History of England: 1541–1871: A Reconstruction
. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Wyatt, John.
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Young, Thomas. “The Bakerian Lecture: Experiments and Calculations Relative to Physical Optics.”
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
94 (1804): 1–16.
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