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  • - Ocular Horizons
    af Martin Willis
    673,95 kr.

    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 Victorian vision influenced twentieth-century ways of seeing.

  • - Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age
    af David Philip Miller
    608,95 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
    608,95 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 Lee T. Macdonald
    668,95 kr.

    Long before government cutbacks forced its closure in 1980, the observatory was run by both major bodies responsible for the management of science in Britain: first the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and then, from 1871, the Royal Society.

  • - Deep Time, Evolution, and Race in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences
     
    678,95 kr.

    Takes a critical approach to nineteenth-century human history, as the contributors consider how these histories were shaped by the colonial world, and for various scientific, religious, and sociopolitical purposes. This volume highlights the underlying questions and shared assumptions that emerged as various human developmental theories competed for dominance throughout the British Empire.

  • - The Production, Circulation, and Appropriation of Ganot's Textbooks in France and England, 1851-1887
    af Josep Simon
    618,95 kr.

  • - Placing Knowledges in Victorian England
    af Simon Naylor
    608,95 kr.

    Victorian England, as is well known, produced an enormous amount of scientific endeavour, but what has previously been overlooked is the important role of geography on these developments. Naylor seeks to rectify this imbalance by presenting a historical geography of regional science.

  • - Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science
    af Rebekah Higgitt
    668,95 kr.

    Examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century. Higgitt focuses on 1820-1870, a period that saw the creation of the specialized and secularized role of the i?1/2scientist.i?1/2 She shows how debates about Newton's character stimulated historical scholarship and led to the development of a new expertise in the history of science.

  • - Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences
    af Victoria Carroll
    608,95 kr.

    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 increasingly organised social and economic order.

  • af Ayako Sakurai
    608,95 kr.

  • - Analysis of a Victorian Town and School in Crisis, 1875-1877
    af Nigel Richardson
    608,95 kr.

    After the Public Heath Acts of 1872 and 1875, British local authorities bore statutory obligations to carry out sanitary improvements. Richardson explores public health strategy and central-local government relations during the mid-nineteenth-century, using the experience of Uppingham, England, as a micro-historical case study.

  • af Joydeep Sen
    608,95 kr.

    Covering the period from the foundation of the Asiatick Society in 1784 to the establishment of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 1876, Sen explores the relationship between Indian astronomers and the colonial British. He shows that Indians were not passive receivers of European knowledge, but active participants in modern scientific observational astronomy.