Written for the fiftieth year of Queen Victoria’s reign, Huxley’s essay reviews the scientific progress of 1837 to 1887: the industrial and transport revolutions it powered, then the great conceptual advances of the age, from the conservation of energy and the molecular theory of matter to the cell, embryology, geology and the theory of evolution.
A compact, authoritative overview of Victorian science by one of its leading figures. Download the free EPUB.