Memorials, Scientific and Literary, of Andrew Crosse, the Electrician

Politics & Social Sciences

Crosse, Andrew

Crosse, Cornelia A. H.

Politics & Government

Franklin Classics

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Memorials, Scientific And Literary, Of Andrew Crosse The Electrician (1857)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Kessinger Publishing

This book contains the complete original experiment by Andrew Crosse in the 19th century, along with a successful replication of his experiment by the London Electrical Society:  In the year of 1837 Andrew Crosse endeavored to create synthetic crystal formations with silicates, water, and electricity. A couple weeks into the experiment, Crosse saw tiny crystal nucleations. Success, he thought. But, in the weeks to come he would notice something revolutionary. These crystal formations were developing the exact anatomy of an insect from the genus acarus! Eventually, these insect mineralizations dislodged from their rocky birthplace and began moving around. They even responded to external stimulus, such as light, implying that they developed some sort of sensory ability. Discover the meticulously detailed account of Crosse's scientific method that generated this curious living insects from dirt (silica)!

Abiogenesis and Life from Dirt: The Andrew Crosse Experiment

Religion & Spirituality

Weekes, W H

Religious Studies

The Book Shed

Today, the English scientist and poet Andrew Crosse (1784-1855) is almost exclusively remembered for his mysterious "Acarus electricus," a form of mites that seemed to have been created during one of his electrical experiments. But this is unfair. Among his friends were the mathematician Lady Ada Lovelace and prominent scientists such as Sir Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday, but also romantic poets such as Robert Southey and Walter Savage Landor. These and many other celebrities from the first half of the 19th century occurs in this colorful and vivid memorial, written and published by his widow Cornelia Crosse in 1857. Here is depicted not only the life and work of the eccentric and likeable Andrew Crosse; it is also an anthology with examples of his literary output. A typical amateur scientist of the upper classes, Andrew Crosse experimented for his own enjoyment and not for glory. The same applies to his writing; Crosse's poems circulated among friends, but was only occasionally published during his lifetime. In the poems, prose and letters you see his obsession with the riddle of life and death. All this should be seen in a romantic light. During this era, natural philosophers wanted to form a synthesis of science with aesthetics, imagination and breakneck speculations -- Romantic science was a concept. Researchers and laymen alike was fascinated by electricity, which was presumed to be the key to the mystery of matter and life. Explaining all mysteries of the Universe was within the boundaries of opportunity, and a gifted philosopher could anticipate the answers with his imagination and intuition. Did Crosse really see the electric mites be born in his laboratory 1837, or was this also a phantasy? Robert Southey leaked information about the mites to the press, and the sensation turned into moral panic. Crosse was accused of interfering with the Creator’s work and to run errands for atheism. Other scientists dismissed him as a charlatan. The sensible Andrew Crosse abandoned these experiments for peace and quiet. And possibly he was not himself convinced that the mites arose spontaneously by the interaction of electricity and chemicals, but were due to the equipment having been contaminated by airborne eggs. This book also shows that Crosse experimented with his electric mites during a period of strong psychological pressure because of death and a controversy with a research colleague. After her husband’s death, Cornelia Crosse (1827-1895) became an acclaimed author of popular science.

Science & Math

Crosse, Cornelia

Essays & Commentary

Timaios Press

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