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Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition
Retracing the Origins of Conflict
Häftad, 2024
503 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 …
Commemorating Darwin
Scientific Memory and the Politics of Evolution
Häftad, 2026
503 kr
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Since Charles Darwin’s death in 1882, people across the world have used forms of commemoration and memorialization to celebrate, and at times critique, various aspects of Darwin’s scientific, social, and cultural impact. Commemorative events, activities, and publications marking major anniversaries …
Science Museums in Transition
Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Av Carin Berkowitz, Bernard Lightman
Inbunden, 2017
850 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 …
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 …
Pioneer of Connection
Recovering the Life and Work of Oliver Lodge
Av James Mussell, Graeme Gooday
Inbunden, 2020
829 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 …
Explorations in the Icy North
How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century
Av Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund
Inbunden, 2021
574 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
919 kr
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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
850 kr
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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
875 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
850 kr
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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
781 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
919 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
1048 kr
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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
1676 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
1676 kr
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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
1676 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 …
Disciplinary Connections
History and Physics in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Inbunden, 2027
1726 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
790 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
705 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
684 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
744 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 …
Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700-1880
Av James Sumner
Häftad, 2018
839 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
744 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 …
Adolphe Quetelet, Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874
Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874
Häftad, 2019
518 kr
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Adolphe Quetelet was an influential astronomer and statistician whose controversial work inspired heated debate in European and American intellectual circles. In creating a science designed to explain the "average man," he helped contribute to the idea of normal, most enduringly in his creation of …
Life and Legend of James Watt
Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine
Häftad, 2019
550 kr
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The Life and Legend of James Watt offers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend built over generations, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements …
British Arboretum
Trees, Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Av Paul A. Elliott, Charles Watkins m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
503 kr
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This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was fostered by a variety of factors, each of which is explored in detail: global trade and exploration, the popularity of collecting, the significance to the …
Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Häftad, 2020
805 kr
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The nineteenth century was an important period for both the proliferation of "popular" science and for the demarcation of a group of professionals that we now term scientists. Of course for Ireland, largely in contrast to the rest of Britain, the prominence of Catholicism posed various …
Science and Eccentricity
Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences
Häftad, 2020
684 kr
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The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. This monograph is the first scholarly history of eccentricity. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an …
Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences
Shared Assumptions, 1820–1858
Av James Elwick
Häftad, 2020
684 kr
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Elwick explores how the concept of "compound individuality" brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. Scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were …
Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland
Häftad, 2020
684 kr
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The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of civic culture, inculcating virtues necessary for civic progress. In turn, civic culture was presented as an …
