Visions of Science: Books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age

About James A. Secord

James Secord is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project and a fellow of Christ's College. His research and teaching is on the history of science from the late eighteenth century to the present. He has published several books including Controversy in Victorian Geology (Princeton 1986) and editions of the works of Mary Somerville Charles Lyell and Robert Chambers. Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication Reception and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chicago 2000) an account of the public debates about evolution in the mid-nineteenth century won the Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society and the award for the best book in history from the Association of American Publishers' Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division.