My Scientific Methods:
Science in the Sherlockian Canon.
Edited by
Dana Richards, BSI.
Sherlock Holmes might not have invented the field of forensic science, but he certainly popularized it and demonstrated the value of science in solving crimes.
My Scientific Methods provides the first comprehensive analysis of the overall role of science in the Sherlockian Canon. Biology, chemistry, anthropology, and archaeology are just a few of the subjects evaluated here, along with an overview of science in the late nineteenth century.
The Canon begins in a laboratory where Holmes is researching tests for hemoglobin. That scientific curiosity propels him throughout the sixty stories. Look down your microscopes, light up your Bunsen burners, and prepare for a chain reaction that takes you through the scientific life of Sherlock Holmes
256 pages, 9″ x 6″ hardcover, July 2022
With 42 b&w illustrations
My Scientific Methods
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Table of Contents for My Scientific Methods
General Editor’s Foreword
by Marsha Pollak
Introduction
by Dana Richards
Science in Victorian England
“Scientist”: The Philosophy of Science until 1880
by Dana Richards
Scientists in the Canon: Survey Says—Nothing Conclusive, but Something Suggestive
by Marshall S. Berdan
From the Science of Deduction to Pseudo-Science
by Michael W. Homer
Scientific Disciplines
Holmes and Biology
by Bernard Lightman
“A Fellow Who Is Working at the Chemical Laboratory”
by Christopher A. Zordan
From Certainty to Uncertainty: Sherlock Holmes and Physics
by Calvert Markham
Sherlock Holmes and the Beginning of Modern Forensic Science
by David R. Zauner
Archaeology in the Canon
by Mark Schwartz
Anthropological Thought in the Canon
by Carlina de la Cova
Science, Sociology, and Holmes
by Ketaki Dwivedi
Tibet You Were Not Paying Attention
by Monica M. Schmidt
Asteroids, Comets and the Structure of the Solar System
by William A. Walsh
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Sherlock Holmes, Meteorologist?
by Randy Cerveny
Tripping over the Tripos
by S. Brent Morris
“Full Speed Ahead, Engineer”
by David Richards
Street Urchins Need Not Apply: Sherlock Holmes and the Art of Software Testing
by Melinda Caric
Science and Fiction
Exploring the Edge of the Unknown: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Borderlands of Science
by Mark Jones and Paul M. Chapman
Sherlock Holmes and the Romance of Science
by Anastasia Klimchynskaya
Techno-Rebel: A Case for Steampunk Holmes
by Ashley D. Polasek
The Binomial Theorists: Contributors
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