Teaching Officers

Jim Secord

Research interests: Social history of science since 1750; life and earth sciences; history of science communication

Selected publications

'Scrapbook Science: Composite Carictures in Late Georgian England', in A. Shteir and B. Lightman (eds), Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture, Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Press, (2006), 164-191
'Knowledge in Transit', Isis 95 (2004), 654-672
'Monsters at the Crystal Palace', in S. de Chadarevian and N. Hopwood (eds), Models: The Third Dimension of Science, Stanford: Stanford University Press, (2004), 138-169
Collected Works of Mary Somerville. 9 vols. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, (2004), introductions and bibliographies
Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, University of Chicago Press, (2000)
Cultures of Natural History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1996); co-edited with N. Jardine and E. Spary
'Introduction', in Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, Penguin Classics, (1997)
'Introduction', in Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and other Evolutionary Writings, University of Chicago Press, (1994)
'The Discovery of a Vocation: Charles Darwin's Early Geology', British Journal for the History of Science 24 (1991), 133-157
Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute, Princeton University Press, (1986)