02420cam a2200241 i 4500 120517s2013 enk b 001 0 eng 9781107023376 SDU PR595.S33 B877 P 2013 Brown, Daniel The poetry of Victorian scientists : style, science and nonsense / Daniel Brown. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 310 p. Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 83 HKBU Library "A surprising number of Victorian scientists wrote poetry. Many came to science as children through such games as the spinning-top, soap-bubbles and mathematical puzzles, and this playfulness carried through to both their professional work and writing of lyrical and satirical verse. This is the first study of an oddly neglected body of work that offers a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science. Such figures as the physicist James Clerk Maxwell toy with ideas of nonsense, as through their poetry they strive to delineate the boundaries of the new professional science and discover the nature of scientific creativity. Also considering Edward Lear, Daniel Brown finds the Victorian renaissances in research science and nonsense literature to be curiously interrelated. Whereas science and literature studies have mostly focused upon canonical literary figures, this original and important book conversely explores the uses literature was put to by eminent Victorian scientists"-- "Many came to science as children through such games as the spinning-top, soap-bubbles, and mathematical puzzles, and this playfulness carried through to both their professional work and writing of lyrical and satirical verse. This is the first study of an oddly neglected body of work that offers a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science. Such figures as the physicist James Clerk Maxwell toy with ideas of nonsense, as through their poetry they strive to delineate the boundaries of the new professional science and discover the nature of scientific creativity"-- English poetry 19th century History and criticism. Scientists' writings. 210922 Literature and science Great Britain History 19th century. 210923 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 109386 109386 0 0 lcc 0 PR0595 S33 B877 P2013 0 CGB 282368 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-19 2 PR595.S33 B877 P 2013 1000373204 2025-09-19 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-19 GBE