Alice Jenkins. Space and the “March of Mind” - Literature and the Physical Sciences in Britain, 1815-1850

“Space and the march of mind”, is the title of Alice Jenkins’ latest captivating book and a march it most certainly is, for endurance and breadth, as much as for sagacious learning and ambition. The book is divided into two main parts, one entitled “thinking with spaces” (chapters 1-4), and the other “thinking about spaces” (5-7) in a well-balanced volume of 230 pages, followed by a substantial bibliography.The “march of mind” (or in Keats’s famous words, “the march of intellect”) in the titl...