Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Note on the Author VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Key to Citations used in Text XI
5. Illustrations XIII
6. Contents XV
7. Part I Penzance
8. 1 INTRODUCTION 1
9. 2 BIRTH AND FAMILY: THE EARLY YEARS 9
10. 3 A YEAR OF IDLENESS 21
11. 4 APPRENTICESHIP 29
12. 5 BEGINNING CHEMISTRY 46
13. 6 MENTORS AND FRIENDS 62
14. 7 DR. THOMAS BEDDOES 75
15. 8 A JOB OFFER 92
16. Part II Bristol
17. 1 THE CLIFTON YEARS: OCTOBER 1798—MARCH 1801 101
18. 2 "THE MOST AMIABLE WOMAN IN THE WORLD" 106
19. 3 THE LIGHT OF NATURE PURSUED 110
20. 4 NEW FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES: THE BRISTOL POETS 121
21. 5 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: CHEMISTRY AND THE "PASSION OF HOPE" 135
22. 6 CALORIC AND PHOSOXYGEN 153
23. 7 MORAL TALES, EDUCATION THEORY AND A PLANNED EPIC 172
24. 8 BONNET CANES AND SILEX: A CHEMICAL EXERCISE 185
25. 9 EXPERIMENTAL PLANS, SYPHILITICS AND SCIENTIFIC PRIORITY 189
26. 10 PHOSOXYGEN DENIED: "THE BIBLE OF LAVOISIER" 200
27. 11 THE WONDER-WORKING GAS OF DELIGHT 211
28. 12 NITROGEN OXIDES I—PNEUMATIC CHEMISTRY 225
29. 13 NITROGEN OXIDES II 237
30. 14 PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS 253
31. 15 HOLIDAYS CONFRONTING MEDICAL THEORY 263
32. 16 BREAKING BEDDOES' S DREAM 273
33. 17 VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY I 284
34. 18 VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY II 299
35. 19 NEGOTIATING A JOB OFFER 320
36. Part III London
37. 1 A CAREER WELL-FOUNDED 335
38. 2 AFTERWORD 347
39. Select Bibliography 359
40. Index 371