The Age of Wonder (90 page)

69
Mary Shelley,
The Letters of Mary Shelly,
vol 1, edited by Betty T. Bennett, Johns Hopkins UP, 1988, pp369, 378

70
Frankenstein,
1818, vol 2, Chapter 5, Penguin Classics, pp116-17

71
Lawrence,
On the Natural History of Man,
1819, p150

72
Ruston, p71

73
Adrian Desmond,
The Politics of Evolution: Medicine in Radical London,
Chicago, 1989, p112

Chapter 8: Davy and the Lamp

1
Jane Apreece to Walter Scott, 4 March 1811, in ‘Lady Davy’s Letters’, edited by James Parker,
The Quarterly Review,
January 1962; also Lamont-Brown, p94

2
For example: ‘Whene’er you speak, Heaven! how the listening throng/ Dwell on the melting music of your tongue!…’ (Valentine’s Day 1805), HD Archive Box 26 File H II

3
Treneer, p119

4
See ‘iconography’ for Lady Davy (Jane Apreece) in
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
At the time of going to press I am still searching for a portrait, having exhausted all leads kindly provided by the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; and Christie’s, London

5
HD Archive Mss Box 25, containing ninety letters from Lady Davy 1811-22

6
HD Archive Mss Box 25/1

7
HD Archive Mss Box 25/3

8
HD Archive Mss Box 25/2

9
Raymond Lamont-Brown,
Humphry Davy: Life Beyond the Lamp,
Sutton, 2004, p94

10
HD Archive Mss Box 25/3; 13; 18; 20

11
HD Archive Mss Box 25/6

12
Coleridge letter of 28 May 1809; also Treneer, p113

13
HD Archive Mss Box 25/5 (1 November 1811)

14
HD Archive Mss Box 25/11; and Treneer, p124

15
HD Archive Mss Box 25/25 (March 1812)

16
HD Archive Mss Box 25/4; also Lamont-Brown, pp96-7

17
HD Archive Mss Box 25/4

18
‘Lady Davy’s Letters’, edited by James Parker,
The Quarterly Review,
January 1962, p81

19
HD Archive Mss Box 25/26

20
HD Archive Mss Box 25/24; further details Lamont-Brown, pp90-105

21
Thorpe, p162

22
Banks to John Lloyd FRS, 31 March 1812; from June Z. Fullmer, ‘The Poetry of Sir Humphry Davy’, in
Chymia,
6, 1960, p114

23
Treneer, p126

24
HD Works 2

25
JD Fragments, p158

26
Holmes,
Shelley,
p153

27
Thomas De Quincey, ‘The Poetry of Pope’, 1848. He gave Newton’s
Principia
as an example of Knowledge, and Milton’s
Paradise Lost
as example of Power. De Quincey also published a number of essays on scientific subjects, notably ‘Animal Magnetism’ (1833), ‘Kant and Dr Herschel’ (1819) and ‘The Planet Mars’ (1819)

28
HD Works 4, pp1-40

29
Ibid., p20

30
Ibid., ppl-2

31
Golinski, p262

32
Consolations,
Dialogue V, ‘The Chemical Philosopher’, HD Works 9

33
Coleridge in Notebook 23 (1812), quoted by Trevor H. Levere,
Chemists in Society 1770-1878,
1994, pp363-4

34
Coleridge’s Marginalia on Jakob Boehme (c.1810-11), from ibid., p357

35
See Coleridge’s letter to Lord Liverpool, 28 July 1817, discussing Davy versus Dalton (’atomist’),
Collected Letters,
vol 4, p760

36
JD Fragments, p174

37
Ibid., p175

38
HD Archive Mss Box 25/31

39
Treneer, p134

40
Ibid., p133

41
Ibid., p137

42
Hamilton, pp119, 207

43
Jane Marcet,
Conversations in Chemistry,
2 vols, 1813, vol 1, p342

44
Treneer, p138

45
HD Archive Mss Box 25/33

46
HD Archive Mss Box 25/27

47
HD Archive Mss Box 25/28

48
HD Archive Mss Box 25/36

49
Kerrow Hill,
The Brontë Sisters and Sir Humphry Davy,
Penzance, 1994, p16

50
HD Archive Mss Box 25/34

51
Paris, vol 2, pp59-72

52
JD Memoirs, p163

53
Michael Faraday, ‘Observations on Mental Education’, 1859; quoted in James Hamilton,
Faraday: The Life,
HarperCollins, 2002, p1. See also striking portraits and photographs of Faraday dated 1829, 1831 and c. 1850 (National Portrait Gallery)

54
Lamont-Brown, pp110-26

55
Paris, vol 1, p261

56
Leigh Hunt,
Examiner,
24 October 1813

57
JD Fragments, p190

58
Michael Faraday,
Correspondence 1811-1831,
vol 1, edited Frank A.L.J. James, Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1991, p127

59
Maurice Crosland, ‘Davy and Gay Lussac’, in Sophie Forgan (editor),
Science and the Sons of Genius
(essays), 1980, pp103-8

60
Faraday,
Correspondence,
p124

61
JD Memoirs, pp172-7; and Hartley, p107

62
Hartley, pp107-8

63
Faraday,
Correspondence,
p101

64
HD Works 1, p218

65
Ibid., p217

66
Ibid., p220

67
Faraday,
Correspondence,
p117

68
Ibid., 23 February 1815, p126

69
Treneer, p175; from Ticknor,
Memoirs

70
HD Works 1, p235

71
Paris, vol 2, p79

72
J.H. Holmes,
Accidents in Coal Mines,
London, 1816, pp141-2

73
‘Report of the Select Committee on Accidents in Mines’, in
Parliamentary Papers,
1835, vol 5, September 1835

74
Faraday,
Correspondence,
p136

75
Bence Jones,
Life and Letters of Faraday,
vol 1, p361

76
Paris, vol 2, p95

77
Ibid., p82

78
JB Letters, p317

79
Paris, vol 2, p97

80
Letter to John Hodgson, 29 December 1815, Northumberland Record Office; from Frank A.J.L. James, ‘How Big is a Hole? The Problems of the Practical Application of Science in the Invention of the Miners’ Safety Lamp by Humphry Davy and George Stephenson in Late Regency England’, in
Transactions of the Newcomen Society,
75, 2005, p197

81
Frank James, pp185-93

82
HD,
On the Safety Lamp, with Some Researches into Flame,
1818; and HD Works 6, pp12-14

83
HD Works 6, p4

84
Coleridge,
The Friend
(1818 edition), in
The Friend,
vol 1, edited by Barbara E. Rooke, Routledge, 1969, pp 530-1

85
Coleridge,
The Friend
(1809 edition), no. 19, 1809; in
The Friend,
vol 2, edited by Barbara E. Rooke, Routledge, 1969, pp251-2

86
Frank James, p197

87
John Buddle’s evidence (2nd day), Report of the Select Committee, 1835, ppl53-4

88
HD Works 6, pp116-17

89
Lamont-Brown, p112

90
Thorpe, p203

91
Paris, vol 2, p111

92
‘Igna Constructo Securitas…’ Davy’s coat of arms illustrated in
The Gentleman’s Magazine,
1829

93
John Playfair, ‘Sir Humphry Davy’s Lamp’, in
Edinburgh Review,
no. LI, 1816, p233; also Thorpe, p204

94
HD Works 6, pp6-7

95
Ibid., p22, footnote

96
Ibid., p4

97
Hamilton, pp121-5; Lamont-Brown, pp128-33

98
James Heaton demonstration at the Society of Arts, 1817, described in Report of the Select Committee, 1835, p213

99
A Collection of all Letters in Newcastle papers relating to Safety Lamps,
London, 1817. See British Library catalogue Tracts 8708.i.2

100
Letter from George Stephenson, ibid., Tracts 8708.i.2(5)

101
Treneer, p172

102
Lettter to Lord Lambton, October 1816, in Paris, vol 2, p120

103
Frank James, p203

104
Paris, vol 2, p123

105
See Hamilton, pp122-3

106
Frank James, pp183-95

107
HD Works 6

108
Paris, vol 2, p122

109
Ibid., p124-5; and from David Knight,
Davy,
p113

110
HD Works 1, pp209-10

111
Paris, vol 2, p129

112
Treneer, pp 173-4; Thorpe, p208

113
Minute Book of Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society, December 1817, from Frank James, p211

114
‘Report of the Select Committee on Accidents in Mines’, in
Parliamentary Papers,
1835, vol 5, September 1835

115
Ibid., pviii

116
Ibid.

117
Davy boys described in ibid., pp97-108, 165-7. See also Samuel Smiles,
Life of George Stephenson,
1859; and Newcastle Public Record Office

118
Walter Scott,
Journals
1, 1826, p109

119
JD Fragments, pp141-3

120
Sun Fire Office insurance document, 4 June 1818, found through internet UK Archives Network

121
HD,
On the Safety Lamp for Preventing Explosions,
London, 1825, p151

122
Consolations,
Dialogue II, HD Works 9, pp254-5

123
Ibid., p255

124
JD Life 2, pp114-15; and JD Memoirs, pp251-3

125
Shelley,
Epipsychidion,
1820, lines 190-221 (extract)

126
Byron, letter to John Murray, April 1820; see Treneer, p182

127
Byron,
Don Juan
I (1819), stanza 132

Chapter 9: Sorcerer and Apprentice

1
JB Correspondence 6, p286

2
JB, August 1816, ibid., pp208-9

3
Ibid., p382

4
JB, November 1814, ibid., p152

5
Gunther Buttman,
In the Shadow of the Telescope: A Biography of John Herschel,
Lutterworth Press, 1974, p13