Victorian England

Russell, C.A., Edward Frankland— Chemistry, Controversy and Conspiracy in Victorian England. Cambridge University Press, 1996. 

As a result of Frankland s out-of-wedlock birth, he became a painfully shy man who shunned publicity. His courage arose from his convictions that the public deserved clean drinking water and that students deserved a sound scientific education. Thus, Frankland s life as a chemist is also the story of how a dedicated scientist overcame the stigma of illegitimacy in socially rigid Victorian England. 

Owen, Alex. 1989. The Darkened Room Women, Power and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England. London Virago. 

Joan Richards, Mathematical Visions The Pursuit of Geometry in Victorian England (San Diego Academic Press, 1988) 4041. 

For accounts of the history of the development of structural formulas see Nye MJ (1993) From chemical philosophy to theoretical chemistry. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA Russell CA (1996) Edward Frankland chemistry, controversy and conspiracy in Victorian England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge... 

Regionalizing Science Placing Knowledges in Victorian England Simon Naylor... 

The expansion was first glimpsed and dated during the fossil-hunting heyday of Victorian England. Fossils were dug up in the 600-million-year-old rocks found in Wales. Because Latin sounds more impressive than English, these were called the Cambrian rocks, after the Latin word for Wales, Cambria. But, curiously, they found no fossils in older rocks. 

R. M. MacLeod, Evolution, internationalism and commercial enterprise in science The International Scientific Series, 1871-1910, in Development of Science Publishing in Europe, ed. A. J. Meadotvs (Amsterdam-New York-Oxford Elsevier, 1980) Id., The Creed of science in Victorian England (Aldershot Ashgate-Variorum, 2000) L. Howsam, An experiment with science for the nineteenth-century book trade The International Scientific Series, British Journal for the History of Science 33... 

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