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Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews

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Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews

Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews

With Addresses and Other Pieces
John Herschel
July 2014
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    First published in 1857, this work comprises assorted noteworthy writings by the mathematician and astronomer Sir John Herschel (1792–1871), reflecting his diverse scientific and literary interests. It includes a piece on terrestrial magnetism, a review of William Whewell's writings on the history and philosophy of science, and several addresses to the Royal Astronomical Society. Of particular interest is Herschel's commentary on Adolphe Quetelet's work on probability, which advocated applying statistics and probability calculus to social and political questions. Herschel's article not only influenced the growth of social science in Britain, but also played an important role in James Clerk Maxwell's development of a statistical treatment of heat phenomena. Also included in this collection are Herschel's translations of poems by Schiller (accompanied by the original German) as well as examples of his own verse. In an intriguing appendix, Herschel outlines a method for compiling vocabularies of indigenous peoples.

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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Address to the subscribers to the Windsor and Eton Public Library
    • 2. Mechanism of the heavens
    • 3. Terrestrial magnetism
    • 4. Inductive sciences
    • 5. Kosmos
    • 6. Probabilities
    • 7. Address to the Royal Astronomical Society, 1827
    • 8. Address to the Royal Astronomical Society, 1828
    • 9. Address to the Royal Astronomical Society, 1829
    • 10. Address to the Royal Astronomical Society, 1840
    • 11. Address to the Royal Astronomical Society, 1841
    • 12. Memoir of the late F. Baily
    • 13. Address to the Royal Astronomical Society, 1849
    • 14. Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science
    • 15. The walk
    • 16. Funeral dirge of a Nadowessie
    • 17. Dithyrambics
    • 18. Saying of Confucius - time
    • 19. Saying of Confucius - space
    • 20. Leonora
    • 21. Prose and verses
    • 22. To the lark
    • 23. Man the interpreter of nature
    • 24. A scene in Ely cathedral
    • 25. Mira
    • 26. The parting dove
    • 27. On burning a parcel of old MSS
    • 28. A dream which was not all a dream
    • 29. Appendix.
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