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Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for discoveries in branches of science such as botany, astronomy and medicine to be described in book-length treatises in verse. By the end of the 19th century this mode of popularising science was falling from favour as the studies of science and the humanities diverged and study became more specialised.

This small selection of somewhat lighter-hearted verse written by distinguished scientists and mathematicians of the day includes poems by James Clerk Maxwell, William J. Macquorn Rankine and James Joseph Sylvester. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

Genres: Science , Poetry

Running Time: 47 minutes 02 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	To F. W. F. Ruth Golding	9:04
2	Lines Written Under the Conviction that it is Not Wise to Read Mathematics in November After One's Fire is Out Ruth Golding	4:58
3	A Problem in Dynamics Ruth Golding	6:23
4	In Memory of Edward Wilson: Rigid Body Ruth Golding	1:20
5	Valentine by a Telegraph Clerk (Male) to a Telegraph Clerk (Female) Ruth Golding	1:28
6	Lectures to Women on Physical Science Ruth Golding	5:13
7	To the Chief Musician upon Nabla Ruth Golding	4:20
8	To the Committee of the Cayley Portrait Fund Ruth Golding	1:58
9	Molecular Evolution Ruth Golding	2:24
10	The Mathematician in Love Ruth Golding	3:37
11	The Three-foot Rule: a Song about Standards of Measure Ruth Golding	2:19
12	To a Missing Member of a Family Group of Terms in an Algebraical Formula Ruth Golding	1:29
13	The Infant Metaphysician Ruth Golding	2:29