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Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition
Retracing the Origins of Conflict
Häftad, 2024
501 kr
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The story of the “conflict thesis” between science and religion—the notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the two—is part of our modern self-understanding. As the story goes, John William Draper (1811–1882) and Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918) constructed dramatic narratives in the …
Science Museums in Transition
Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Av Carin Berkowitz, Bernard Lightman
Inbunden, 2017
845 kr
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The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored museums. The science museum as we know it—an institution of …
Kew Observatory and the Evolution of Victorian Science, 1840–1910
Inbunden, 2018
976 kr
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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-nineteenth century, it was a world-leading center for four major sciences: geomagnetism, meteorology, solar physics, and standardization. Long …
Historicizing Humans
Deep Time, Evolution, and Race in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences
Inbunden, 2018
877 kr
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With an Afterword by Theodore KoditschekA number of important developments and discoveries across the British Empire's imperial landscape during the nineteenth century invited new questions about human ancestry. The rise of secularism and scientific naturalism; new evidence, such as skeletal and …
Anxious Times
Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Av Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
935 kr
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Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and urbanization, speed of travel, and global communications. The literature, medicine, science, and popular journalism of the nineteenth …
Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life
Organic Vitality in Germany around 1800
Inbunden, 2019
948 kr
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Attempts to distinguish a science of life at the turn of the nineteenth century faced a number of challenges. A central difficulty was clearly demarcating the living from the nonliving experimentally and conceptually. The more closely the boundaries between organic and inorganic phenomena were …
Geographies of City Science
Urban Lives and Origin Debates in Late Victorian Dublin
Inbunden, 2019
806 kr
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Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century was both the second city of the British Empire and the soon-to-be capital of an emerging nation, presenting a unique space in which to examine the past relationship between science and the city. Drawing on both geography and biography, Geographies of City …
Science of Our Own
Exhibitions and the Rise of Australian Public Science
Inbunden, 2019
714 kr
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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 the scale of nations, it needed to develop a science of its own. Prominent scientists in the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria answered this …
Pioneer of Connection
Recovering the Life and Work of Oliver Lodge
Av James Mussell, Graeme Gooday
Inbunden, 2020
824 kr
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Sir Oliver Lodge was a polymathic scientific figure who linked the Victorian Age with the Second World War, a reassuring figure of continuity across his long life and career. A physicist and spiritualist, inventor and educator, author and authority, he was one of the most famous public figures of …
Victorian Science and Imagery
Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
Inbunden, 2021
877 kr
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The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and when art and visual culture produced new notions about the place of the human in the natural world. Just as scientists relied …
Explorations in the Icy North
How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century
Av Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund
Inbunden, 2021
571 kr
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Science in the Arctic changed dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century, when early, scattered attempts in the region to gather knowledge about all aspects of the natural world transitioned to a more unified Arctic science under the First International Polar Year in 1882. The IPY …
Voice of Science
British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America
Inbunden, 2021
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For many in the nineteenth century, the spoken word had a vivacity and power that exceeded other modes of communication. This conviction helped to sustain a diverse and dynamic lecture culture that provided a crucial vehicle for shaping and contesting cultural norms and beliefs. As science …
Symbols and Things
Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Inbunden, 2021
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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 on far more than the properties of number. British mathematicians came to rely on industrialized paper and pen manufacture, railways and mail, and …
Imperial Bodies in London
Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–1914
Inbunden, 2021
870 kr
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Winner, 2022 Whitfield Prize for First Monograph in the Field of British and Irish HistorySince the eighteenth century, European administrators and officers, military men, soldiers, missionaries, doctors, wives, and servants moved back and forth between Britain and its growing imperial territories. …
Trinity Circle
Anxiety, Intelligence, and Knowledge Creation in Nineteenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2021
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The Trinity Circle explores the creation of knowledge in nineteenth-century England, when any notion of a recognizably modern science was still nearly a century off, religion still infused all ways of elite knowing, and even those who denied its relevance had to work extremely hard to do so. The …
Psychic Investigators
Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age
Inbunden, 2022
777 kr
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Psychic Investigators examines British anthropology’s engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shriar argues that debates over the existence of ghosts and psychical powers were at the center of anthropological discussions on human beliefs. He …
Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences
Rethinking the Specialization Thesis
Av Bernard Lightman, Efram Sera-Shriar
Inbunden, 2024
914 kr
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The specialization thesis—the idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern disciplines—has played an integral role in the way historians have described the changing disciplinary map of nineteenth-century British science. This …
William Whewell
Victorian Polymath
Inbunden, 2024
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William Whewell, the famous master of Trinity College in Cambridge, was a central figure in nineteenth-century British scientific culture and one of the last great polymaths. His influential work ranged from history and philosophy of science, education, architecture, mineralogy, and political …
From Virile to Sterile
Science, Masculinity, and Modernity in Argentina, 1776–1852
Inbunden, 2026
1667 kr
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As rigorous scientific and philosophical discourse circulated during the Enlightenment, aided by the Republic of Letters, a revolutionary understanding of gender emerged that would impact nation building in Europe and the Americas. In From Virile to Sterile, Adriana Novoa analyzes the cosmopolitan …
Commercial and Sublime
Popular Astronomy Lectures in Britain, 1780–1860
Inbunden, 2026
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The astronomy lecturing trade in Britain experienced a theatrical turn in the early 1800s, as practitioners relied on larger and more elaborate visual aids to enhance the scenic and dramatic effects of their traveling spectacles. Commercial and Sublime explores this phenomenon in the long …
Wallace in the Field
Ethnographic Expeditions and the Rise of Anthropology
Av Victor Rafael Limeira-DaSilva
Inbunden, 2026
1667 kr
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A man of many talents—naturalist, geographer, anthropologist, and political commentator—Alfred Russel Wallace made seminal contributions to science in the nineteenth century. With Wallace in the Field, Victor Rafael Limeira-DaSilva unpacks the early life of one of the most beloved and famous …
Empire of Experiment
James Dinwiddie and Witnessing Science from Britain to the Orient and Back, 1746–1815
Inbunden, 2027
1717 kr
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Empire of Experiment offers a vivid, ground-level history of early modern science as it moved through the British Empire before 1815. Drawing on previously unpublished diaries, journals, and newly discovered correspondence, Larry Stewart reconstructs a world shaped not only by celebrated thinkers …
Disciplinary Connections
History and Physics in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Inbunden, 2027
1717 kr
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Disciplinary Connections uncovers the intertwined origins of two fields that shaped nineteenth-century thought: history and physics. Offering the first combined perspective on their development, Sjang ten Hagen reveals a time when these disciplines were seen as parallel modes of knowledge rather …
Medicine and Modernism
A Biography of Henry Head
Av L. S. Jacyna
Häftad, 2016
786 kr
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This is the first in-depth study of the English neurologist and polymath Sir Henry Head (1861-1940). Head bridged the gap between science and the arts. He was a published poet who had close links with such figures as Thomas Hardy and Siegfried Sassoon. His research into the nervous system and the …
Communicating Physics
The Production, Circulation, and Appropriation of Ganot's Textbooks in France and England, 1851–1887
Av Josep Simon
Häftad, 2016
701 kr
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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 were translated from their original French into more than ten languages, including English, allowing their adoption as standard works in Britain and …
Free Will and the Human Sciences in Britain, 1870-1910
Av Roger Smith
Häftad, 2016
680 kr
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From the late nineteenth century onwards religion gave way to science as the dominant force in society. This led to a questioning of the principle of free will—if the workings of the human mind could be reduced to purely physiological explanations, then what place was there for human agency and …
Domesticating Electricity
Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880–1914
Häftad, 2018
740 kr
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This is an innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods. Gooday shows how technology, authority and gender interacted in pre-World War I Britain. The rapid take-up of electrical light and domestic appliances on both sides of …
James Watt, Chemist
Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age
Häftad, 2018
686 kr
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In the Victorian era, James Watt became an iconic engineer, but in his own time he was also an influential chemist. Miller examines Watt’s illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel interest in chemistry, arguing that Watt’s conception of steam engineering relied upon chemical …
Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700-1880
Av James Sumner
Häftad, 2018
740 kr
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How did the brewing of beer become a scientific process? Sumner explores this question by charting the theory and practice of the trade in Britain and Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From an oral culture derived from home-based skills, brewing industrialized rapidly and …
Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920
Ocular Horizons
Häftad, 2018
740 kr
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This book explores the role of vision and the culture of observation in Victorian and modernist ways of seeing. Willis charts the characterization of vision through four organizing principles—small, large, past and future—to survey Victorian conceptions of what vision was. He then explores how this …
