Visions of science: books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age

Fantastic voyages: Humphry Davy's Consolations in Travel

The economy of intelligence: Charles Babbage's Reflections on the Decline of Science in England

The conduct of everyday life: John Herschel's Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy

Mathematics for the million? Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

A philosophy for a new science: Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology

The problem of mind: George Combe's Constitution of Man

The torch of science: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus

Epilogue.