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Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist
A Study of Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 1993
643 kr
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'Deserves to be as popular with non-specialists as with those who have a science background...I can think of sixth-formers I would offer it to, and I know of an eighty-year-old (non-specialist) who would not let me finish my copy in peace' - Elspeth Crawford, Physics Education 'Cantor...achieves a …
Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851
E-bok, 2011
1137 kr
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 is routinely portrayed as a manifestly secular event which was confined to celebrating the success of science, technology, and manufacturing in the mid-Victorian age. Geoffrey Cantor presents an innovative reappraisal of the Exhibition, demonstrating that it was widely …
Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion
Av John Brooke, Geoffrey Cantor
Häftad
1368 kr
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Quakers, Jews, and Science
Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900
Inbunden, 2005
2884 kr
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How do science and religion interact? This study examines the ways in which two minorities in Britain - the Quaker and Anglo-Jewish communities - engaged with science. Drawing on a wealth of documentary material, much of which has not been analysed by previous historians, Geoffrey Cantor charts the …
Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851
Inbunden, 2011
2119 kr
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 is routinely portrayed as a manifestly secular event which was confined to celebrating the success of science, technology, and manufacturing in the mid-Victorian age. Geoffrey Cantor presents an innovative reappraisal of the Exhibition, demonstrating that it was widely …
Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism
Av Geoffrey Cantor, Marc Swetlitz
Inbunden, 2006
849 kr
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Darwin’s theory of evolution transformed the life sciences and made profound claims about human origins and the human condition, topics often viewed as the prerogative of religion. As a result, evolution has provoked a wide variety of religious responses, ranging from angry rejection to …
Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism
Av Marc Swetlitz, Geoffrey Cantor
E-bok, 2008
701 kr
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Darwin’s theory of evolution transformed the life sciences and made profound claims about human origins and the human condition, topics often viewed as the prerogative of religion. As a result, evolution has provoked a wide variety of religious responses, ranging from angry rejection to …
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
Reading the Magazine of Nature
Av Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
767 kr
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For the Victorian reading public, periodicals played a far greater role than books in shaping their understanding of new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine. Such understandings were formed not merely by serious scientific articles, but also by glancing asides in political …
Science and Religion
New Historical Perspectives
Av Thomas Dixon, Geoffrey Cantor m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1593 kr
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The idea of an inevitable conflict between science and religion was decisively challenged by John Hedley Brooke in his classic Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge, 1991). Almost two decades on, Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives revisits this argument and …
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
Reading the Magazine of Nature
Av Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1872 kr
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For the Victorian reading public, periodicals played a far greater role than books in shaping their understanding of new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine. Such understandings were formed not merely by serious scientific articles, but also by glancing asides in political …
Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media
Av Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
3643 kr
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Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the …
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 1
The Correspondence, May 1840–August 1843
Av Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson
Inbunden, 2016
2093 kr
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The 230 letters in this inaugural volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall chart Tyndall's emergence into early adulthood, spanning from his arrival in Youghal in May 1840 as a civil assistant with just a year's experience working on the Irish Ordnance Survey to his pseudonymous authorship of …
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 5
The Correspondence, January 1855–October 1856
Av William H. Brock, Geoffrey Cantor
Inbunden, 2018
2093 kr
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This volume contains 266 letters covering a period of twenty-two months, when Tyndall was in his midthirties and had been employed by the Royal Institution as professor of natural philosophysince September 1853. Many of the letters printed here concern the lectures he delivered at the RI and other …
Great Exhibition Vol 1
A Documentary History
E-bok, 2021
3088 kr
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the …
Great Exhibition Vol 2
A Documentary History
E-bok, 2021
1030 kr
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the …
Great Exhibition Vol 3
A Documentary History
E-bok, 2021
1030 kr
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the …
Great Exhibition Vol 4
A Documentary History
E-bok, 2021
1052 kr
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the …
Great Exhibition Vol 1
A Documentary History
E-bok, 2021
3156 kr
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the …
Great Exhibition Vol 2
A Documentary History
E-bok, 2021
1052 kr
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the …
Great Exhibition Vol 3
A Documentary History
E-bok, 2021
1052 kr
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the …
Great Exhibition Vol 4
A Documentary History
E-bok, 2021
1030 kr
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the …
Science and Religion
New Historical Perspectives
Av Thomas Dixon, Geoffrey Cantor m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
732 kr
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The idea of an inevitable conflict between science and religion was decisively challenged by John Hedley Brooke in his classic Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge, 1991). Almost two decades on, Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives revisits this argument and …
Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media
Av Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
930 kr
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Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the …
Great Exhibition Vol 1
A Documentary History
Inbunden, 2013
2831 kr
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the …
Great Exhibition Vol 2
A Documentary History
Inbunden, 2013
1885 kr
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the …
Great Exhibition Vol 3
A Documentary History
Inbunden, 2013
1885 kr
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the …
Great Exhibition Vol 4
A Documentary History
Inbunden, 2013
1885 kr
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the …
Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist
A Study of Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century
E-bok, 2016
847 kr
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''Deserves to be as popular with non-specialists as with those who have a science background...I can think of sixth-formers I would offer it to, and I know of an eighty-year-old (non-specialist) who would not let me finish my copy in peace'' - Elspeth Crawford, Physics Education ''Cantor...achieves …
Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media
Av Jonathan R. Topham, Sally Shuttleworth m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
981 kr
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Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the …
Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media
Av Jonathan R. Topham, Sally Shuttleworth m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
981 kr
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Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the …
