"Good Books Make Better Children":
Nineteenth-Century Textbooks in Special Collections
Sciences |
The teaching of the sciences saw a dramatic change over the course of the nineteenth century. Until mid-century, the majority of science textbooks focused on "natural philosophy" and "natural history," as the combined subjects of botany, chemistry, astronomy, and geology were called. Later in the century, science books gradually put more emphasis on anatomy, physiology, health, and hygiene. |
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Gray's Botany for Young People series was renowned throughout the nineteenth century for its clear and practical lessons on the subject, and was a standard introduction to agricultural principles for young future farmers. |
 Primers |
 Readers |
 Arithmetic |
 Geographies |
 Sciences |
 Histories |