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Kew Observatory and the Evolution of Victorian Science, 1840-1910
Lee T MacDonald
- Livre relié | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
- Kew Observatory was originally built in 1769 for King George III, a keen amateur astronomer, so that he could observe the transit of Venus. By the mid... Savoir plus
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Science Museums in Transition
- Livre relié | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century | n° 90
- The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private colle... Savoir plus
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Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture
Louise Penner, Tabitha Sparks
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- This collection of essays explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Cha... Savoir plus
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Regionalizing Science
Simon Naylor
- Livre relié | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
- Victorian England, as is well known, produced an enormous amount of scientific endeavour, but what has previously been overlooked is the important rol... Savoir plus
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Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920
Martin Willis
- Livre broché | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century | n° 87
- This book explores the role of vision and the culture of observation in Victorian and modernist ways of seeing. Willis charts the characterization of ... Savoir plus
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Making Entomologists
Matthew Wale
- Livre relié | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
- Popular natural history periodicals in the nineteenth century had an incredible democratizing power. By welcoming contributions from correspondents re... Savoir plus
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Symbols and Things
Kevin Lambert
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- In the steam-powered mechanical age of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of late Georgian and early Victorian mathematicians depended ... Savoir plus
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Recreating Newton
Rebekah Higgitt
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- Higgitt examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century. She focuses on 1820-1870, a period that saw the creation of the special... Savoir plus
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A Science of Our Own
Peter H Hoffenberg
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- When the Reverend Henry Carmichael opened the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts in 1833, he introduced a bold directive: for Australia to advance on th... Savoir plus
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Typhoid in Uppingham
Nigel Richardson
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- After the Public Heath Acts of 1872 and 1875, British local authorities bore statutory obligations to carry out sanitary improvements. Richardson expl... Savoir plus
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News from Mars
Joshua Nall
- Livre relié | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
- Mass media in the late nineteenth century was full of news from Mars. In the wake of Giovanni Schiaparelli's 1877 discovery of enigmatic dark, straigh... Savoir plus
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Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences
- Livre relié | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
- The specialization thesis--the idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern dis... Savoir plus
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Communicating Physics
Josep Simon
- Livre broché | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century | n° 87
- The textbooks written by Adolphe Ganot (1804-1887) played a major role in shaping the way physics was taught in the nineteenth century. Ganot's books ... Savoir plus
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A Pioneer of Connection
- Livre relié | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
- Sir Oliver Lodge was a polymathic scientific figure who linked the Victorian Age with the Second World War, a reassuring figure of continuity across h... Savoir plus
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Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences
James Elwick
- Livre broché | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century | n° 87
- Elwick explores how the concept of "compound individuality" brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. Scientists conducting re... Savoir plus
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Working with Paper
- Livre relié | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
- Working with Paper builds on a growing interest in the materials of science by exploring the gendered uses and meanings of paper tools and technologie... Savoir plus
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Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life
Joan Steigerwald
- Livre relié | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
- Attempts to distinguish a science of life at the turn of the nineteenth century faced a number of challenges. A central difficulty was clearly demarca... Savoir plus
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Adolphe Quetelet, Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874
Kevin Padraic Donnelly
- Livre broché | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century | n° 87
- Adolphe Quetelet was an influential astronomer and statistician whose controversial work inspired heated debate in European and American intellectual ... Savoir plus
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The Trinity Circle
William J Ashworth
- Livre relié | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
- The Trinity Circle explores the creation of knowledge in nineteenth-century England, when any notion of a recognizably modern science was still nearly... Savoir plus
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Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions
- Livre relié | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
- Before the advent of radio, conceptions of the relationship between science and religion circulated through periodicals, journals, and books, influenc... Savoir plus
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Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Juliana Adelman
- Livre broché | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century | n° 90
- The nineteenth century was an important period for both the proliferation of "popular" science and for the demarcation of a group of professionals tha... Savoir plus
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Imagining the Darwinian Revolution
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- This volume considers the relationship between the development of evolution and its historical representations by focusing on the so-called Darwinian ... Savoir plus
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Psychic Investigators
Efram Sera-Shriar
- Livre relié | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
- Psychic Investigators examines British anthropology's engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shria... Savoir plus
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Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State
Roland Jackson
- Livre relié | Anglais | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
- In twenty-first-century Britain, scientific advice to government is highly organized, integrated across government departments, and led by a chief sci... Savoir plus
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