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  • - Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine
    af David Philip Miller
    478,95 kr.

    Offers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements but also ruthless in protecting his inventions and ideas, and determined in pursuit of money and fame.

  • - Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874
    af Kevin Donnelly
    478,95 kr.

    Kevin Donnelly presents the first scholarly biography of Quetelet, exploring his contribution to quantitative reasoning, his place in nineteenth-century intellectual history, and his profound influence on the modern idea of average.

  • - Recovering the Life and Work of Oliver Lodge
     
    628,95 kr.

    A Foundational Figure in Twentieth-Century Media Technology Whose Career Linked the Victorian Age with the Second World War

  • af Matthew Wale
    576,95 kr.

  • af Efram Sera-Shriar
    528,95 kr.

    Examines British anthropology's engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era.

  • - Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age
    af David Philip Miller
    628,95 kr.

    In the Victorian era, James Watt became an iconic engineer, but in his own time he was also an influential chemist. David Philip 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 understandings.

  • af James Sumner
    628,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Roland Jackson
    788,95 kr.

    Traces the Early Evolution of Britain's System of Scientific Advice

  • af Bernard Lightman
    633,95 kr.

    How Intellectuals and Global Publics Viewed the Relationship between Evolution and Diverse Religious Traditions