This is the first collected edition of the letters of Humphry Davy.
Davy is a significant figure in both the history of science and
literary history. One of the foremost chemists of the early
nineteenth century, he was the first person to inhale nitrous
oxide. He pioneered electrochemistry, using the Voltaic pile to
isolate more chemical elements than any other scientist; and he
invented the miners' safety lamp that came to be known as the 'Davy
lamp'. His lectures and papers played a key part in the
professionalization of science, in the growth of scientific
institutions, and in the emergence of scientific disciplines. He
was the protege of Thomas Beddoes and Joseph Banks, and the mentor
of Michael Faraday. He was also a poet, and a friend of poets,
including Wordsworth, Southey, Scott, and Byron. The edition
contains fully annotated transcriptions of correspondence (much
previously unpublished) with such figures as Joseph Banks, Thomas
Beddoes, Joens Jacob Berzelius, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael
Faraday, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, the Herschels, the Marcets,
Marc-Auguste Pictet, Nicolas-Theodore de Saussure, James Watt,
Josiah Wedgwood, William Hyde Wollaston, and Thomas Young. The
edition throws new light on Davy, on the histories of science and
literature, and on the social history of the early nineteenth
century. It illuminates scientific controversies over the safety
lamp, the Board of Longitude, the Geological Society, and the Royal
Society. It offers new perspectives on the 1790s poetry of
Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey. It illuminates women's literary
networks, reveals the links between science and government, and
casts light on provincial and dissenting intellectual networks,
among Quakers and Unitarians.
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