Science And Whig Manners
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Author |
: Joe Bord |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 223 |
Release |
: 2009-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230595231 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230595235 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science and Whig Manners by : Joe Bord
Approaching the intersection of politics and science from the perspective of political history, this book looks at how nineteenth-century British Whigs used the themes of natural science to signal their identities, and how their devotion to a culture of liberality helped to define them. Offers a fresh take on a central theme in Victorian politics.
Author |
: Edward J. Gillin |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 343 |
Release |
: 2017-11-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108318105 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110831810X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Victorian Palace of Science by : Edward J. Gillin
The Palace of Westminster, home to Britain's Houses of Parliament, is one of the most studied buildings in the world. What is less well known is that while Parliament was primarily a political building, when built between 1834 and 1860, it was also a place of scientific activity. The construction of Britain's legislature presents an extraordinary story in which politicians and officials laboured to make their new Parliament the most radical, modern building of its time by using the very latest scientific knowledge. Experimentalists employed the House of Commons as a chemistry laboratory, geologists argued over the Palace's stone, natural philosophers hung meat around the building to measure air purity, and mathematicians schemed to make Parliament the first public space where every room would have electrically-controlled time. Through such dramatic projects, Edward J. Gillin redefines our understanding of the Palace of Westminster and explores the politically troublesome character of Victorian science.
Author |
: Callum Barrell |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2021-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316519073 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316519074 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis History and Historiography in Classical Utilitarianism, 1800–1865 by : Callum Barrell
The first complete account of the utilitarians' historical thought, from which emerge new interpretations of their philosophy and politics.
Author |
: K. Schutte |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2014-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137327802 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137327804 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000 by : K. Schutte
Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women's marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War.
Author |
: D. Lemmings |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2011-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230354401 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230354408 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Law and Government in England during the Long Eighteenth Century by : D. Lemmings
Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents and analyzes these shifts and focuses upon the changing relations between legal authority and the English people.
Author |
: John G McEvoy |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 343 |
Release |
: 2015-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317324010 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317324013 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Historiography of the Chemical Revolution by : John G McEvoy
This study offers a critical survey of past and present interpretations of the Chemical Revolution designed to lend clarity and direction to the current ferment of views.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 842 |
Release |
: 1874 |
ISBN-10 |
: UGA:32108057765243 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance by :
Author |
: Jacob Bronowski |
Publisher |
: Faber & Faber |
Total Pages |
: 155 |
Release |
: 2011-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780571286942 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0571286941 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Common Sense of Science by : Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski was, with Kenneth Clarke, the greatest popularizer of serious ideas in Britain between the mid 1950s and the early 1970s. Trained as a mathematician, he was equally at home with painting and physics, and wrote a series of brilliant books that tried to break down the barriers between 'the two cultures'. He denounced 'the destructive modern prejudice that art and science are different and somehow incompatible interests'. He wrote a fine book on William Blake while running the National Coal Board's research establishment. The Common Sense of Science, first published in 1951, is a vivid attempt to explain in ordinary language how science is done and how scientists think. He isolates three creative ideas that have been central to science: the idea of order, the idea of causes and the idea of chance. For Bronowski, these were common-sense ideas that became immensely powerful and productive when applied to a vision of the world that broke with the medieval notion of a world of things ordered according to their ideal natures. Instead, Galileo, Huyghens and Newton and their contemporaries imagined 'a world of events running in a steady mechanism of before and after'. We are still living with the consequences of this search for order and causality within the facts that the world presents to us.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 1048 |
Release |
: 1863 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433069257412 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Universal Critical and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: Including Scientific Terms by :
Author |
: Roland Jackson |
Publisher |
: University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2023-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822990055 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822990059 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State by : Roland Jackson
In twenty-first-century Britain, scientific advice to government is highly organized, integrated across government departments, and led by a chief scientific adviser who reports directly to the prime minister. But at the end of the eighteenth century, when Roland Jackson’s account begins, things were very different. With this book, Jackson turns his attention to the men of science of the day—who derived their knowledge of the natural world from experience, observation, and experiment—focusing on the essential role they played in proffering scientific advice to the state, and the impact of that advice on public policy. At a time that witnessed huge scientific advances and vast industrial development, and as the British state sought to respond to societal, economic, and environmental challenges, practitioners of science, engineering, and medicine were drawn into close involvement with politicians. Jackson explores the contributions of these emerging experts, the motivations behind their involvement, the forces that shaped this new system of advice, and the legacy it left behind. His book provides the first detailed analysis of the provision of scientific, engineering, and medical advice to the nineteenth-century British government, parliament, the civil service, and the military.