Sir James Dewar, 1842-1923

J S Rowlinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• Sir James Dewar was a major figure in British chemistry for around 40 years. He held the posts of Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambri... 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

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

Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800)

Anita McConnell

• Hardcover | 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

Entrepreneurial Ventures in Chemistry

Peter Reed

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• The Muspratt family form a fascinating dynasty in the history of British commerce and manufacturing. Associated principally with the development of th... Lees meer

Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution

A D Morrison-Low

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• At the start of the Industrial Revolution, it appeared that most scientific instruments were made and sold in London, but by the time of the Great Exh... Lees meer

Pursuing the Unity of Science

• Paperback | 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

Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

• Hardcover | 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

Entrepreneurial Ventures in Chemistry

Peter Reed

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• The Muspratt family form a fascinating dynasty in the history of British commerce and manufacturing. Associated principally with the development of th... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Barcelona: An Urban History of Science and Modernity, 1888-1929

Oliver Hochadel, Agustí Nieto-Galan

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• The four decades between the two Universal Exhibitions of 1888 and 1929 were formative in the creation of modern Barcelona. Architecture and art bloss... Lees meer

Science and Beliefs

Matthew D Eddy

• Hardcover | 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

Selling Science in the Age of Newton

Jeffrey R Wigelsworth

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• Selling Science in the Age of Newton explores an often ignored avenue in the popularization of science. It is an investigation of how advertisements i... 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

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

Chemical Structure, Spatial Arrangement

Peter J Ramberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• Offering a comprehensive narrative of the early history of stereochemistry, Dr Ramberg explores the reasons for and the consequences of the fundamenta... Lees meer