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274; scientific observations, 274; on Davy’s romantic attachments, 281; on pain, 282-3, 417; and Davy’s view of therapeutic value of science, 290; on ‘the One Life’, 291, 316; on Davy’s success in London, 292-3, 340; opium addiction, 292, 297, 307-8; on Mediterranean tour, 293, 295; Davy invites to lecture at Royal Institution, 295, 297; returns from Mediterranean, 297; lectures on ‘Poetry and the Imagination’ at Royal Institution, 299-300, 467; and Beddoes’s death, 302; on effect of celebrity on Davy, 304; treated by Abernethy, 307-8, 311; with Gillman in Highgate, 308, 321-2; on ‘science of mind’, 314; absent from Haydon’s ‘Immortal Dinner’, 318, 320; letter from Southey on Davy’s rejection of poetry, 320; understands formation of rainbow, 320-1; in Vitalism debate, 321-2; on evolution, 322; and ‘Theory of Life’, 322; edits The Friend, 340; estrangement from Davy, 340, 346; quarrel with Wordsworth, 340; on Davy’s contribution to science, 345-6; and Davy’s philosophical speculations, 357; on chance and inspiration in Davy’s scientific discoveries, 367-8; on steamships, 382; depicted in Davy’s Salmonia, 417; on Newton and Shakespeare, 429 & n; on new poetry, 438n; effect of poetry on John Stuart Mill, 441; attends Cambridge meeting of British Association, 448; friendship with Faraday, 448-9; obituary, 460; The Ancient Mariner, 18n, 112, 219-20; Biographia Literaria, 431, 449; ‘Christabel’, 266; Church and State, 205n; ‘Does Fortune Favour Fools?’, 367; ‘Kubla Khan’, 59, 267; Lyrical Ballads (with Wordsworth), 254, 268, 275, 283, 291; Notebooks, 274, 321; ‘Notes Towards a New Theory of Life’ (with Gillman), 321; Philosophical Lectures, xvi; ‘The Three Graves’, 212; ‘Youth and Age’, 382
    Colonial Office: finances Mungo Park’s second expedition, 222, 231
    combustion, 245, 247
    Comet, HMS, 412
    comets: Caroline Herschel discovery of, 171-4, 176, 188, 193; nature of, 172
    Commerson, Philibert, 3, 11
    computers: Babbage devises early machine, 437-8
    Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de, 249
    Condorcet, M.J.A.N. de Caritat, Marquis de, 125, 128; Life of Voltaire, 261
    Conduit, John, xviiin
    Connaissance des Temps, La (annual), 88n, 124, 172, 175-6
    Conrad, Joseph, 220; Heart of Darkness, 228n
    consciousness, 322
    Constable, John: cloud paintings, 160
    Conte, Nicolas, 156
    Cook, Captain James: commands Endeavour voyage, xvi, 3-6, 9-11, 13; wariness of venereal disease, 4, 18; on Niger expedition, 9; and seaman’s suicide on Endeavour, 14; security on Tahiti, 15-16; activities in Tahiti, 20, 23, 35; observes Transit of Venus, 21; on sexual practices in Tahiti, 26; impounds Tahitian canoes, 27-8; circumnavigates Tahiti, 29-32; takes Tahitian hostages, 34; explores New Zealand and Australia, 38 & n; on civilised and indigenous peoples, 39; praised on return from voyage, 42-3; journal appropriated by officials, 44; second Pacific expedition (Resolution, 1772), 46-7; third Pacific expedition (1777), 61; invites James Lind on second voyage, 121n; killed in Hawaii, 53-4; Charles Darwin studies voyages, 461; Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (ed. John Rickman), 53; A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, 51
    Cooke, T.P., 334-5
    Cooper, Astley, 306-7, 316, 323
    Copernicus, Nikolaus, 205, 247
    Cornwall, 236-8, 268, 350
    Cottle, Joseph, 251, 254, 256, 258-9, 263-4
    Courier (newspaper), 408
    Coutelle, Carles, 156
    Coutts & Co. (bankers), 251
    Cowper, William, 51; The Task (poem), 51-2
    craniology, 310-11
    Creation, xviii, 91, 198, 451, 454, 459
    Crick, Francis, 373n
    Croker, John Wilson, 405
    Crosse, Andrew, 419-20
    Crowe, Michael J.: The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 168n
    Cruikshank, George, 453
    Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke of, 69
    Cuvier, Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron, 7, 57, 306, 310, 312, 353, 430, 439, 454
    Dalton, John, 236, 247, 303, 394, 399, 447, 448
    Darwin, Caroline, 461
    Darwin, Charles: voyages on