Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture

Louise Penner, Tabitha Sparks

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• This collection of essays explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Cha... Lees meer

Kew Observatory and the Evolution of Victorian Science, 1840-1910

Lee T MacDonald

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• 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... Lees meer

Science Museums in Transition

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century | nr. 90
• The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private colle... Lees meer

Regionalizing Science

Simon Naylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Victorian England, as is well known, produced an enormous amount of scientific endeavour, but what has previously been overlooked is the important rol... Lees meer

Making Entomologists

Matthew Wale

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Popular natural history periodicals in the nineteenth century had an incredible democratizing power. By welcoming contributions from correspondents re... Lees meer

Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920

Martin Willis

• Paperback | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century | nr. 87
• This book explores the role of vision and the culture of observation in Victorian and modernist ways of seeing. Willis charts the characterization of ... Lees meer

Symbols and Things

Kevin Lambert

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• In the steam-powered mechanical age of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of late Georgian and early Victorian mathematicians depended ... Lees meer

Recreating Newton

Rebekah Higgitt

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Higgitt examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century. She focuses on 1820-1870, a period that saw the creation of the special... Lees meer

A Science of Our Own

Peter H Hoffenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• When the Reverend Henry Carmichael opened the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts in 1833, he introduced a bold directive: for Australia to advance on th... Lees meer

Typhoid in Uppingham

Nigel Richardson

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• After the Public Heath Acts of 1872 and 1875, British local authorities bore statutory obligations to carry out sanitary improvements. Richardson expl... Lees meer

News from Mars

Joshua Nall

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Mass media in the late nineteenth century was full of news from Mars. In the wake of Giovanni Schiaparelli's 1877 discovery of enigmatic dark, straigh... Lees meer

Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• The specialization thesis--the idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern dis... Lees meer

Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences

James Elwick

• Paperback | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century | nr. 87
• Elwick explores how the concept of "compound individuality" brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. Scientists conducting re... Lees meer

Communicating Physics

Josep Simon

• Paperback | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century | nr. 87
• 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 ... Lees meer

A Pioneer of Connection

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Sir Oliver Lodge was a polymathic scientific figure who linked the Victorian Age with the Second World War, a reassuring figure of continuity across h... Lees meer

Working with Paper

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Working with Paper builds on a growing interest in the materials of science by exploring the gendered uses and meanings of paper tools and technologie... Lees meer

Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life

Joan Steigerwald

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Attempts to distinguish a science of life at the turn of the nineteenth century faced a number of challenges. A central difficulty was clearly demarca... Lees meer

Adolphe Quetelet, Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874

Kevin Padraic Donnelly

• Paperback | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century | nr. 87
• Adolphe Quetelet was an influential astronomer and statistician whose controversial work inspired heated debate in European and American intellectual ... Lees meer

Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Juliana Adelman

• Paperback | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century | nr. 90
• The nineteenth century was an important period for both the proliferation of "popular" science and for the demarcation of a group of professionals tha... Lees meer

Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Before the advent of radio, conceptions of the relationship between science and religion circulated through periodicals, journals, and books, influenc... Lees meer

The Trinity Circle

William J Ashworth

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• The Trinity Circle explores the creation of knowledge in nineteenth-century England, when any notion of a recognizably modern science was still nearly... Lees meer

Psychic Investigators

Efram Sera-Shriar

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Psychic Investigators examines British anthropology's engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shria... Lees meer

Imagining the Darwinian Revolution

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• This volume considers the relationship between the development of evolution and its historical representations by focusing on the so-called Darwinian ... Lees meer

Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State

Roland Jackson

• Hardcover | Engels | Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• In twenty-first-century Britain, scientific advice to government is highly organized, integrated across government departments, and led by a chief sci... Lees meer