The Age of Wonder (91 page)

6
JB Correspondence 6, p375

7
Ibid.

8
JB Correspondence 6, 1819

9
Coleridge ‘Youth and Age’ (1825), in
Selected Poems,
Penguin Classics, p215

10
November 1817, JB Correspondence 6, p252

11
Byron, ‘Darkness’, written at the Villa Diodati, July 1816. See Fiona MacCarthy,
Byron: Life and Legend,
John Murray, 2002, p69; and discussed in
New Penguin Romantic Poetry,
edited by Jonathan and Jessica Wordsworth, Notes to Poems, p909

12
JB Correspondence 6, September and November 1819, pp355, 367

13
Gascoigne, p52

14
JB Correspondence 6, March 1818, p276

15
Ibid., November 1818, p325

16
Ibid., September 1819, p359

17
Byron,
Don Juan
(1821), Canto 10, lines 1-24. The ‘glass and vapour’ refer to telescopes and steamships, and also possibly balloons. The ringing phrase ‘In the Wind’s Eye’ was used by modern editors as the title of vol 6 of Byron’s
Collected Letters

18
JB Correspondence 6, August 1816, p209

19
Gascoigne, p41

20
Ibid.

21
Buttman, p13

22
CHM, pp119-21

23
John Herschel to Babbage, October 1813, quoted in Buttman, p14

24
William Herschel to John, 10 November 1813, WH Mss 6278 1/11

25
Lady Herschel to John, 14 November 1813, ibid.

26
John Herschel to Babbage, March 1815, quoted by Buttman, p16

27
JB Correspondence 6, p375

28
Shelley, ‘Notes to Queen Mab’ (1812)

29
Ruston, p154

30
Further discussion in Ruston p208, and Crowe,
Extraterrestrial,
p171

31
Shelley,
Prometheus Unbound,
Act I, lines 163-6

32
Ibid., Act II, lines 52-9

33
Ibid., Act IV, lines 238-44

34
Ibid., lines 457-72

35
Gascoigne, pp257-9

36
JB Correspondence 6, various letters, 1820

37
Gascoigne, pp249-55

38
JB Correspondence 6, August 1819, p352

39
Ibid., November 1819, p367

40
Ibid., February 1820, p379

41
William Edward Parry to ‘My Dearest Parents’, December 1817; from O’Brian, p300

42
JB Correspondence 6, asking for news of Parry, 1818, pp251, 326, 377

43
Ibid., 20 December 1819, p374. The man was of course John Herschel

44
Ibid., Berthollet to Banks, 27 March 1820, pp383-4

45
See his Will, described in O’Brian, Chapter 12

46
Marie Boas Hall,
All Scientists Now,
1984, p18

47
Lockhart,
Life of Sir Walter Scott,
vol 2, 1838, pp40-3

48
HD Works 7, pp5-15

49
Ibid., p21

50
JD Life 2, p126

51
Paris, vol 2, p185

52
Faraday,
Correspondence
1, p183

53
Ibid., pp244-80 passim

54
Hamilton, p192

55
Faraday to Phillips, May 1836, Bence Jones,
Michael Faraday,
1870, vol 1, pp335-9

56
Discussed in Bence Jones, pp335-9, and James Hamilton, pp186-9

57
Holmes,
Shelley,
p410

58
Hartley, p129

59
Ibid., p130

60
Humboldt, ‘Lecture to the Berlin Academy of Sciences’, 1805, quoted in Steven Ruskin,
Herschel’s Cape Voyage,
2004

61
Ibid., pp20-2

62
Ibid., p16

63
Many of these instruments, including the ‘mountain barometer’, in WH Archive; and see Ruskin, p21

64
‘The Garden Days: Marlow 1817’ in Holmes,
Shelley.
If I had been a novelist I would have described Shelley and Mary making a night visitation to the great forty-foot, and getting Caroline to show them Andromeda and other distant constellations, and planning a comet-flight into deep space. See ‘The Witch of Atlas’, 1820

65
CHM, p131. The note is actually dated 4 July 1819

66
CHM, p137

67
WH Chronicle, p363. The second translation is mine

68
Gentleman’s Magazine,
September 1822

69
Ibid.

70
Holmes,
Shelley,
p730

71
Sime, pp259-61

72
WH Chronicle, p359

73
CHM, p163

74
CHM, p171

75
WH Chronicle, p366

76
CHM, p167

77
Caroline Herschel to John, April 1827, British Library Ms Egerton 3761.f45/60; and see J.A. Bennett, ‘The Telescopes of William Herschel’, in
Journal for the History of Astronomy, 7,
June 1976

78
CHM, p163

79
CHM, p 180

80
CHM, p193

81
CHM, p161

82
David S. Evans (editor),
Herschel at the Cape: Letters and Journals of John Herschel,
Texas, 1969, pxxi

83
CHM, p168

84
Thorpe, p222

85
Treneer, p208

86
Ibid., pp206-12

87
Ibid., p208

88
The Harringtonian System of Chemistry,
1819, quoted in Golinski, p217

89
‘The Humbugs of the Age’, in
John Bull Magazine,
1, 1824, British Library catalogue PP.5950

90
Evans, pxxx

91
Treneer, p207

92
JD Memoirs, p346

93
JD Fragments, p289

94
JD Memoirs, pp334-6

95
HD Works 9, pp13-14

96
Salmonia,
Day 4, HD Works 9, pp66-7

97
JD Fragments, p258

98
Salmonia,
Day 4, HD Works 9, p66

99
HD Archive Mss Box 25/51

100
HD Archive Mss Box 25/61

101
Consolations,
Dialogue IV, HD Works 9, pp314-15

102
Paris, vol 2, p306

103
Tom Poole to John Davy, c. 1835, in Paris, vol 2, p307

104
Paris, vol 2, p309

105
HD Archive Mss Box 25/73, 74, 75. On 25 January 1829: ‘I hope I may wear on till the spring & see May in Illyria. I have now constant pain in the region of the heart.’ Box 25/84

106
HD Archive Mss Box 25/73; and Lamont-Brown, pp157-63

107
HD Archive Mss Box 25/90

108
HD Archive Mss Box 25/74, letter, 2 November 1828

109
HD Archive Mss Box 25/75, letter, 3 December 1828

110
HD Archive Mss Box 26, File B/17

111
HD Archive Mss Box 25/83

112
JD Fragments, p265

113
Davy’s two unpublished poems to Josephine Dettela can be found in HD Archive Mss Box 14 (e) pp128-30

114
Based on local information provided by Professor Dr Janez Batis of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences, for David Knight,
Humphry Davy: Vision and Power,
Blackwell Science Biographies, 1992, pp180, 260

115
JD Fragments, p293

116
Thorpe, p232

117
HD Archive Mss Box 25/87a

118
Fullmer, p350

119
Consolations,
Dialogue I, HD Works 9, p233

120
Ibid., pp233-6

121
Ibid., pp237-8

122
Ibid., p240

123
Ibid., pp239-47

124
Ibid., pp236-47, 266, 274

125
Ibid., Dialogue II, p266

126
Ibid., pp274, 254-6

127
Ibid., Dialogue III, pp302-3

128
Ibid., Dialogue II, pp304-8

129
Ibid., Dialogue III, p309

130
Ibid., p308

131
Ibid., Dialogue IV, p316

132
Ibid., pp320-1

133
Undated extract from Davy’s lecture notebooks, JD Memoirs, p147

134
Consolations,
Dialogue V, HD Works 9, pp361-5

135
Ibid., pp364-6

136
Ibid., pp365-6

137
Ibid., Dialogue VI, p382

138
Janet Browne,
Charles Darwin,
vol 1, 2003, p30

139
JD Memoirs, 1839

140
John Tobin,
Journal of a Tour whilst accompanying the late Sir Humphry Davy,
1832, p5

141
JD Fragments, p268

142
JD Fragments, to Jane, September 1827, p296

143
HD Archive Mss Box 25/80, to Jane, 1 September 1828

144
John Herschel,
On the Study of Natural Philosophy,
1830, pp342-4 and footnote

145
HD Archive Mss Box 14 (M) pp105-6

146
JD Fragments, Jane to Davy, late March 1829, p313

147
John Davy’s affectionate account, in JD Memoirs, p412

148
JD Memoirs, p408

Chapter 10: Young Scientists

1
In a series of gloomy articles, e.g.
The Times,
28 June 1832. See Marie Boas Hall,
All Scientists Now,
CUP, 1984

2
Edinburgh Review,
49, 1829, pp439-59; and Hamilton, p270

3
Thomas Carlye,
Sartor Resartus,
1833

4
Anthony Hyman, ‘Charles Babbage: Science and Reform’, in
Cambridge Scientific Minds,
edited by Peter Harman and Simon Mitton, CUP, 2002

5
Charles Babbage,
The Decline of Science in England,
1830, p102

6
Ibid., p152

7
Ibid., p44

8
Ibid., p102

9
Ibid., p174

10
Ibid., pp203-12

11
Ibid., p210