Language of Mineralogy

Matthew D Eddy

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• Classification is an important part of science, yet the specific methods used to construct Enlightenment systems of natural history have proven to be ... Lees meer

Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism

John Van Wyhe

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• Through a reassessment of phrenology, Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism sheds light on all kinds of works in Victorian Bri... Lees meer

Science Policies and Twentieth-Century Dictatorships

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• Making a fresh contribution to the political history of science, this book explores the connections between the science policies of three countries th... Lees meer

Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution

A D Morrison-Low

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• The making and selling of scientific instruments at the start of the Industrial Revolution was centered in London, but by the Great Exhibition in 1851... Lees meer

William Crookes (1832-1919) and the Commercialization of Science

William H Brock

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• William Crookes' long life was one of unbroken scientific and business activity, culminating in his appointment as President of the Royal Society in 1... Lees meer

The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth

Michael Rand Hoare

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• In the 1730s two expeditions set out from Paris on extraordinary journeys; the first was destined for the equatorial region of Peru, the second headed... Lees meer

Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism

John Van Wyhe

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• Through a reassessment of phrenology, Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism sheds light on all kinds of works in Victorian Bri... Lees meer

Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Peter Reed

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• Robert Angus Smith (1817-1884) was a Scottish chemist and a leading investigator into what came to be known as 'acid rain'. This study of his working ... Lees meer

Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography

Cornelius Borck

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius Bo... Lees meer

Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800)

Anita McConnell

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• Jesse Ramsden was one of the most prominent manufacturers of scientific instruments in the latter half of the eighteenth century. To own a Ramsden ins... Lees meer

The Enlightenment of Thomas Beddoes

Trevor Levere, Larry Stewart, Hugh Torrens, Joseph Wachelder

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) lived in 'decidedly interesting times' in which established orders in politics and science were challenged by revolutionary... Lees meer

British University Observatories 1772-1939

Roger Hutchins

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• British University Observatories fills a gap in the historiography of British astronomy by offering the histories of observatories identified as a gro... Lees meer

Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• Air-pumps, electrical machines, colliding ivory balls, coloured sparks, mechanical planetariums, magic mirrors, hot-air balloons - these are just a sa... Lees meer

Entropic Creation

Helge S Kragh

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• Entropic Creation is the first English-language book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, from around... Lees meer

William Crookes (1832-1919) and the Commercialization of Science

William H Brock

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• William Crookes' long life was one of unbroken scientific and business activity, culminating in his appointment as President of the Royal Society in 1... Lees meer

Discovering Water

David Philip Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• The 'water controversy' concerns one of the central discoveries of modern science, that water is not an element but rather a compound. The allocation ... Lees meer

John Herschel's Cape Voyage

Steven Ruskin

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• In 1833 John Herschel sailed from London to Cape Town, southern Africa, to undertake (at his own expense) an astronomical exploration of the southern ... Lees meer

Discovering Water

David Philip Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• The 'water controversy' concerns one of the central discoveries of modern science, that water is not an element but rather a compound. The allocation ... Lees meer

Pursuing the Unity of Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• From 1918 to the late 1940s, a host of influential scientists and intellectuals in Europe and North America were engaged in a number of far-reaching u... Lees meer

Hélène Metzger, Historian and Historiographer of the Sciences

Cristina Chimisso

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• Is there something important to learn from the history of science about knowledge and the mind? Do habits and emotions play a significant role in scie... Lees meer

Science and Beliefs

Matthew D Eddy

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• The years between 1700 and 1900 witnessed a fundamental transition in attitudes towards science, as earlier concepts of natural philosophy were replac... Lees meer

Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Peter Reed

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• Robert Angus Smith (1817-1884) was a Scottish chemist and a leading investigator into what came to be known as 'acid rain'. This study of his life and... Lees meer

Hélène Metzger, Historian and Historiographer of the Sciences

Cristina Chimisso

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• Is there something important to learn from the history of science about knowledge and the mind? Do habits and emotions play a significant role in scie... Lees meer

From Local Patriotism to a Planetary Perspective

Martina Kolbl-Ebert

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• The Nördlinger Ries and Steinheim Basin, two conspicuous geological structures in southern Germany, were traditionally viewed as somewhat enigmatic bu... Lees meer