1858
John Davy, The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, 2 vols, 1836
John Davy, Memoirs of Sir Humphry Davy, in Humphry Davy, Collected Works, Vol I, 1839
Sophie Forgan (editor), Science and the Sons of Genius: Studies on Humphry Davy (essays), Science Reviews Ltd, 1980
June Z. Fullmer, Young Humphry Davy, American Philosophical Society, 2000
James Hamilton, Michael Faraday: The Life, HarperCollins, 2002
Harold Hartley, Humphry Davy, Open University, 1966
Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions, Hodder & Stoughton, 1989
Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, HarperCollins, 1998
David Knight, Humphry Davy: Vision and Power, Blackwell Science Biographies, 1992
Davy Lamont-Brown, Humphry Davy: Life Beyond the Lamp, History Press, 2004
John Ayrton Paris, The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, 2 vols, 1831
Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity, HarperCollins, 1997
Nicholas Roe (editor), Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life, OUP, 2001,
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Dorothy A. Stansfield, Thomas Beddoes MD: Chemist, Physician, Democrat, Reidel Publishing, Boston, 1984
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Anne Treneer, The Mercurial Chemist: A Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Methuen, 1963
T HE S AFETY L AMP AND C ONTROVERSY
A Collection of all Letters in Newcastle papers relating to Safety Lamps, London, 1817. See British Library catalogue Tracts 8708.i.2 (1)
Humphry Davy, On the Safety Lamp for Preventing Explosions, London, 1825 (contains an Appendix on the use of his safety lamps in Europe)
Humphry Davy, On the Safety Lamp for Coal Miners, with Some Researches into Flame (6 papers), London, 1818. See also his revised version in Collected Works, Vol 6, 1840
J.H.H. Holmes, A Treatise on Coalmining of Durham and Northumberland and the Explosions of Firedamp in the last 20 Years, London, 1816, British Library catalogue 726.e.37
Frank A.J.L. James, ‘How Big is a Hole? The Problems of the Practical Application of Science in the Invention of the Miners’ Safety Lamp by Humphry Davy and George Stephenson in Late Regency England’, in Transactions of the Newcomen Society 75, 2005, pp.175-227
John Playfair, ‘Sir Humphry Davy’s Safety Lamp’, in Edinburgh Review LI, 1816, pp.230-40
‘Report of the Select Committee on Accidents in Mines’, in Parliamentary Papers, 1835, vol 5, September 1835. British Library (Science) Series Parliamentary Papers 1835
Samuel Smiles, George Stephenson, 1855
Stephenson’s Lamp now at Killingworth compared to Humphry Davy’s Lamp (2 pamphlets), London, 1817, British Library catalogue 8708.i.2 (5)
Dr Frankenstein and the Soul
John Abernethy, An Enquiry into Mr Hunter’s Theory of Life Lectures, 1815
John Abernethy, A General View of Mr Hunter’s Physiology, 1817
John Abernethy, The Hunterian Oration for 1819, 1819
John Abernethy, ‘Letters to George Kerr 1814-1822’, in St Bart’s Hospital Journal, 1930-1, vol 38, edited by A.W. Franklin
Xavier Bichat, Physiological Researches on Life and Death (translated by F. Gold), 1816
Fred Botting (editor), New Casebooks: Frankenstein, Palgrave, 1995
Druin Burch, Digging up the Dead: The Life and Times of Astley Cooper, Chatto & Windus, 2007
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Richard Carlile, Address to the Men of Science, 1821
F.F. Cartwright, The English Pioneers of Anaesthesia, Simpkin Marshall, 1952
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (with James Gillman and J.H. Green), Notes Towards a More Comprehensive Theory of Life, 1816-19; edited by Seth B. Watson MD, 1848
Nora Crook and Derek Guiton, Shelley’s Venomed Melody, CUP, 1986
Humphry Davy, Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, 1814
Hermione de Almeida, Romantic