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Robert Hunt (1807–1887) was a polymath of the Victorian era. A philosopher of science, he was also a pioneer in photography, a geologist, and a statistician. He bridged the gap between the Romantic era of nature mysticism and the systematic science of the late nineteenth century. Hunt was a devotee of the Romantic poets, particularlyContinue reading “Newman, Robert Hunt and the relation of Poetry to Science  “