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.
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