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Catalogue of the very valuable library of the late Robert Chambers
. . . which will be sold by auction by Mr T. Chapman. Edinburgh
1873. Copy in Nat Lib of Scotland.
Parsons, C. O. Serial publication of Traditions of Edinburgh. Library
4th ser 14 1934.
Millhauser, M. Just before Darwin: Robert Chambers and Vestiges.
Middletown CT 1959.
Cooney, S. M. Publishers for the people: W. and R. Chambers: the
early years, 1832–1850. PhD dissertation Ohio State Univ 1970.
Ogilvie, M. B. Robert Chambers and the successive revisions of the
Vestiges of the natural history of creation. PhD dissertation Univ
of Oklahoma 1973.
Bennett, S. Revolutions in thought: serial publication and the mass
market for reading. In The Victorian periodical press: samplings
and soundings, ed J. Shattock and M. Wolff, Leicester 1982.
Secord, J. Behind the veil: Robert Chambers and Vestiges. In History,
humanity and evolution, ed J. R. Moore, Cambridge 1989.
Layman, C. H. ed. Man of letters: the early life and love-letters of
Robert Chambers. Edinburgh 1990. Prints part of an early autobiography
together with early letters to his fiancée. [jas]
William Kingdon Clifford 1845–79
Notebooks, mss and correspondence by and relating to Clifford are mainly
held in a private collection of his descendants. Original ms for Mathematical
fragments and some letters from period 1871–4 held at Univ College, London.
Bibliographies
Bibliographical introduction in vol I, Lectures and essays by the late
William Kingdon Clifford, FRS, ed L. Stephen and F. Pollock,
1879.
Bibliographical preface in Mathematical papers of W. K. Clifford, ed
R. Tucker, 1882.
Collections and selections
Lectures and essays by the late William Kingdon Clifford, FRS. 2
vols, ed L. Stephen and F. Pollock. Vol 1 with an introd by F.
Pollock (biographical, selections from letters, etc and bibliographical)
1879, London and New York 1886 (1 vol with two essays
removed which were pbd in Mathematical papers), New York
1901 (2 vols), 1918 (Rationalist Press Assoc cheap rpt 52).
Mathematical fragments (facs of unfinished papers on the theory of
graphs). 1881.
Mathematical papers. Ed and preface by R. Tucker (biographical
and bibliographical), introd by H. J. S. Smith. 51 mathematical
research papers and appendix containing notes on mathematical
topics, lecture notes, syllabuses of lectures, reviews, answers to
problems. 1882, New York 1968; tr Ger by H. Klemperer, Leipzig
1913.
The scientific basis of morals, and other essays. New York 1884.
Conditions of mental development, and other essays. New York
1885.
The unseen universe and philosophy of the pure sciences. New York
1886.
Select works of William Kingdon Clifford (including Seeing and
thinking and other essays from Lectures and essays). New York
1889.
The ethics of belief and other essays. Ed L. Stephen and F. Pollock
1947.
Three lectures on psychology. Rpt of three essays from Lectures and
essays (History of British psychology series, the emergence of
psychology with an introduction by R. Thomson), 1993.
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Elements of dynamic: an introduction to the study of motion and
rest in solid and fluid bodies. Part 1 kinematic: Book 1 translations,
Book 2 rotations, Book 3 strains. 1878.
Seeing and thinking: transcript of a series of lectures given in the
Town Hall, Shoreditch. (Diagrams by M. Foster.) 1879, rptd 1880,
New York 1881 (Humboldt Library of Popular Science Literature),
London and New York 1890, Cincinatti OH 1891.
Elements of dynamic: an introduction to the study of motion and
rest in solid and fluid bodies. Part 1 (as above). Part 2: Book 4
masses, appendix. (ed posthumously, with a preface, by R.
Tucker). 1886.
The common sense of the exact sciences. Entrusted to R. C. Rowe
then ed and completed with preface by K. Pearson. London and
New York 1885, 2nd edn London 1886, New York 1888, 1894,
London 1898, New York 1899, 1903, 5th edn London 1907, New
York 1946 (new edn with preface by B. Russell and introd by J. R.
Newman), London 1947, New York 1955.
Body and mind, with other essays. New York 1891 (Humboldt Lib of
Science 145).
Von der natur der singe an sich. Ans dem englischen ubersetztund
hrsg. von Hans Kleinpeter. Mit einer ein leitung das heransgebersuber
Clifford’s leben und werken. (Trn into German of On
the nature of things-in-themselves with an account of Clifford’s
life and work.) Leipzig 1903.
The ethics of religion. New York 1917 (Truth Seeker tracts 130).
Contributions to periodicals
On some of the conditions of mental development. Proc Royal
Institution 6 Mar 1868, rptd Lectures and essays Vol 1 1879, rptd
Lectures and essays second edn 1886. (With subsequent letter pbd
in Pall Mall Gazette 24 June 1868.)
On theories of the physical forces. Proc Royal Institution 18 Feb
1870, rptd Lectures and essays Vol 1 1879, rptd Lectures and essays
2nd edn 1886.
On the aims and instruments of scientific thought. Lecture to the
British Assoc at Brighton 10 Aug 1872. Reported and rptd in
Macmillan’s Mag Oct 1872, rptd Lectures and essays Vol 1 1879,
rptd Lectures and essays 2nd edn 1886.
Atoms. Sunday Lecture Soc 7 Jan 1872, repeated Manchester 20 Nov
1872, ptd in Manchester Science Lectures for the People ser 4 no 4
1872, rptd Lectures and essays Vol 1 1879, rptd Lectures and essays
2nd edn 1886.
The unreasonable. Nature 7, 13 Feb 1873. (Debate with C. M. Ingleby,
Nature 7, 6 Feb, 13 Feb, 20 Feb 1873.)
Rev of Volume 1 of G. H. Lewes, Problems of life and mind. Academy,
7 Feb 1874.
Atoms. In D. Estes ed, Half hour recreations in popular science,
Boston 1874.
The first and the last catastrophe. Sunday Lecture Soc 12 Apr 1874.
Ptd (rev) in Fortnightly Rev Apr 1875, rptd Lectures and essays Vol
1 1879, rptd Lectures and essays 2nd edn 1886.
The philosophy of the pure sciences. Part 1: The statement of the
question. Afternoon lectures at the Royal Institution 1 Mar 1873,
pbd in Contemporary Rev 24, Oct 1874.
Body and mind. Sunday Lecture Soc 1 Nov 1874, Fortnightly Rev Dec
1874, rptd Lectures and essays Vol 2 1879, rptd Lectures and essays
2nd edn 1886.
The philosophy of the pure sciences. Part 2: The postulates of the
science of space. Afternoon lectures at the Royal Institution 8
Mar 1873, Contemporary Rev 25, Feb 1875.
The unseen universe or Physical speculations on a future state. 1875,
Fortnightly Rev June 1875, rptd Lectures and essays Vol 1 1879,
rptd Lectures and essays 2nd edn 1886.
On the scientific basis of morals. Paper read to Metaphysical Soc
1875, Contemporary Rev Sep 1875, rptd Lectures and essays Vol 2
1879, rptd Lectures and essays 2nd edn 1886.
Right and wrong: the scientific ground of their distinction. Sunday
Lecture Soc 7 Nov 1875, Fortnightly Rev Dec 1875, rptd Lectures
and essays Vol 2 1879, rptd Lectures and essays 2nd edn 1886.