James A. Secord

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James A. Secord is affiliated with the following schools: Imperial College London, Princeton University, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, James Andrew Secord is an American-born historian. He is a professor of history and philosophy of science within the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Christ's College. He is also the director of the project to publish the complete Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Secord is especially well known for his award-winning work on the reception of the anonymous Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, a pioneering evolutionary book first published in 1844.

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Knowledge in Transit (2004) (583)
Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (2001) (305)
Cultures of Natural History (1996) (237)
Newton in the Nursery: Tom Telescope and the Philosophy of Tops and Balls, 1761–1838 (1985) (99)
Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute (1986) (99)
Nature's Fancy: Charles Darwin and the Breeding of Pigeons (1981) (78)
HOW SCIENTIFIC CONVERSATION BECAME SHOP TALK* (2007) (67)
The Geological Survey of Great Britain as a Research School, 1839–1855 (1986) (67)
Vestiges of the natural history of creation, and other evolutionary writings (1994) (56)
The discovery of a vocation: Darwin's early geology (1991) (35)
Science, technology and mathematics (2009) (27)
Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age (2015) (25)
Pasteur and the Process of Discovery: The Case of Optical Isomerism (1988) (23)
The great chain of history. William Buckland and the English school of geology (1814–1849) (1984) (18)
What the Victorians Learned (2007) (17)
John W. Salter: the rise and fall of a Victorian palaeontological career (1985) (16)
Quick and Magical Shaper of Science (2002) (13)
Worlds of Natural History (2018) (7)
Natural History in Depth (1985) (4)
Portraits of science. Quick and magical shaper of science. (2002) (3)
Global geology and the tectonics of empire (2018) (3)
Controversy in Victorian Geology (2014) (3)
Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young (2021) (2)
The curious case of Acarus crossii (1990) (2)
Focus: Darwin as a cultural icon. (2009) (1)
Science in print (1997) (1)
Talking Origins (2018) (1)
Natural history and its histories in the twenty-first century (2018) (1)
Evolutionary Writings: Including the Autobiographies (2009) (1)
Mary Somerville’s vision of science (2018) (1)
Book Review:Science in Context Robert S. Cohen, Yehuda Elkana, Simon Schaffer, Gad Freudenthal (1990) (1)
The electronic harvest (2005) (1)
CHAPTER SEVEN. Professional Geology and the Quest for Priority (1990) (0)
How not to go bald (1997) (0)
Temporal questions (1985) (0)
Scientific Culture and Urbanisation in Industrialising Britain (review) (2000) (0)
Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young - CORRIGENDUM (2021) (0)
Geological Tensions in an Idyllic Field (2004) (0)
Afterword (1991) (0)
CHAPTER THREE. Cambria and Siluria Established (1990) (0)
The Secret History of Victorian Evolution (2009) (0)
Introduction (2009) (0)
Dorothy Stein. Ada: A Life and a Legacy . Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1985. Pp. xix + 321. ISBN 0-262-19242-X. £17.50 (hardback), £8.95 (paper). (1988) (0)
History of Natural History (1984) (0)
Astore, Observing God (2004) (0)
Publications Digest 435 of those frames today still demonstrate preferred patterns or designs attributable to specific artists. These aspects are addressed in 'The Artist and the Picture (1996) (0)
CHAPTER SIX. Revivals of the Cambrian (1990) (0)
David Knight, Public Understanding of Science: A History of Communicating Scientific Ideas. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. viii+232. ISBN 0-415-20638-3. £65.00 (hardback). (2008) (0)
Introduction (1993) (0)
Strick James E.. Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2000. Pp. xi, 283. $45.00. ISBN 0-674-00292-X. (2002) (0)
MICHAEL SHORTLAND (ed.), Hugh Miller and the Controversies of Victorian Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, Pp. x+401. ISBN 0-19-8540531-1. £49.50. (1998) (0)
CHAPTER NINE. The Creation of an Alternative (1990) (0)
Ian Inkster and Jack Morrell (eds.), Metropolis and Province: Science in British Culture, 1780–1850. London: Hutchinson, 1983. Pp. 288. ISBN 0-09-145180-9. £17.50. (1985) (0)
Book Review:The Lamp of Learning: Two Centuries of Publishing at Taylor & Francis W. H. Brock, A. J. Meadows (2001) (0)
Supplement to the Correspondence, 1838–75 (2016) (0)
Life and Earth Sciences (1983) (0)
The J.H.B. bookshelf (1988) (0)
BOOK REVIEW: Ian Inkster.SCIENTIFIC CULTURE AND URBANISATION IN INDUSTRIALISING BRITAIN.Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998. (1999) (0)
Roots of a discipline: from mineralogy to geology. (1988) (0)
Special Issue Afterword: Hacking ’ s Glyptodon (2022) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE. Restructuring Wales (1990) (0)
E. BERKELEY and D. S. BERKELEY. George William Featherstonhaugh, the first government geologist. (History of American Science and Technology series). University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa: 1988. Pp xvii, 357; illustrated. Price US$39.95. ISBN 0-8173-0365-0. (1991) (0)
CHAPTER ONE. Controversy and Classification (1990) (0)
Spontaneous Generation and the Triumph of Experiment (2018) (0)
To The Editor (2016) (0)
Roots of a Discipline: From Mineralogy to Geology . The Foundations of a Science, 1650-1830. Rachel Laudan. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987. xii, 278 pp., illus. $27.50. Science and Its Conceptual Foundations. (1988) (0)
Book Review:Research Schools: Historical Reappraisals Gerald L. Geison, Frederic L. Holmes (1995) (0)
Book Review:Like Engend'ring like: Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early Modern England Nicholas Russell (1989) (0)
Biographical register and index to correspondents (2016) (0)
Science (2007) (0)
CHAPTER FOUR. The Spread of Siluria (1990) (0)
CHAPTER EIGHT. The Battle of May Hill (1990) (0)
CHAPTER TWO. Collaboration and Contrasts (1990) (0)
Foreword (2022) (0)
Innes M. Keighren; Charles W. J. Withers; Bill Bell. Travels into Print: Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773–1859. xiii + 364 pp., illus., figs., apps., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2015. $45 (cloth). (2016) (0)
LOCAL EXPLANATION IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF SCIENCE (2020) (0)
Diarmid A. Finnegan, The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. xiii + 286. ISBN 978-0-8229-4681-6. $60.00 (hardback). (2022) (0)
Inventing the Scientific Revolution (2023) (0)
Book Review:Making It Whole: A Victorian Circle and the Shape of Their World Diana Postlethwaite (1989) (0)
Peter WIGLEY (editor). William Smith's Fossils Reunited: Strata Identified by Organized Fossils and A Stratigraphical System of Organized Fossils by William Smith (2020) (0)
Nicholaas A. Rupke, The great chain of history. William Buckland and the English school of geology (1814–1849), Oxford University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xii, 322, illus., £22.50. (1984) (0)
Marsha Driscoll, Elizabeth E. Dunn, Dann Siems, and B. Kamran Swanson. Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1861–1864. (2020) (0)
C. L. E. Lewis;, S. J. Knell (Editors).The Making of the Geological Society of London. (Geological Society Special Publications, 317.) ix + 471 pp., illus., index. London: Geological Society, 2009. £120. (2011) (0)
Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy (2016) (0)
Man's innate curiosity about his sur-roundings is not limited to the human species but it lies at the root of natural (1996) (0)
Author's response (2002) (0)

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