George Wilson's Vision of Early Victorian Science and Technology

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This volume is a comprehensive study of George Wilson, a leading advocate for evangelical science and for the role of biology in technology - it examines his work to develop a unitary vision of Victorian science and technology by drawing upon religion, transcendental natural history and Baconian philosophy Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A New Variety: Science and Technology in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 2. From Medicine to Chemistry: Wilson's Early Years 3. Unity in Variety: Wilson's Theology of Nature 4. Wilson's Methodology of Science 5. The Eye and the Hand: Wilson's Biological View of Technology 6. Wilson's Industrial Museum 7. Epilogue: Victorian Science and Technology after George Wilson