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Oliver Lodge - Continuity And Continuation, 1875-1940

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 A Foundational Figure in Twentieth-Century Media Technology Whose Career Linked the Victorian Age with the Second World War
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A Science Of Our Own - Exhibitions And The Rise Of Australian Public Space

by Peter H. Hoffenberg

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 Explores the influential work of local botanists, chemists, and geologists - William B. Clarke, Joseph Bosisto, Robert Brough Smyth, and Ferdinand Mueller - who contributed to shaping a distinctive public science in Australia during the nineteenth century.
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Making Medicine In Reformation Nuremberg - The Rise Of Physicians In Reformation Nuremberg

by Hannah Murphy

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 The sixteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the number of educated physicians practicing in German cities. Hannah Murphy offers the first systematic interpretation of the growth of elite medical "practice," its relationship to Galenic theory, and the emergence of medical order in the contested world of the German city.
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Experimenting At The Boundaries Of Life - Organic Vitality In Germany Around 1800

by Joan Steigerwald

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 Examines Debates Surrounding the First Articulations of a Science of Life and Experiments on the Processes of Organic Vitality
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News From Mars - Mass Media And The Forging Of A New Astronomy, 1860-1910

by Joshua Nall

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 Provides an account of the late nineteenth century mass media's fascination with Mars, revealing how major transformations in astronomical practice across Britain and America were inextricably tied to popular scientific culture and a new transatlantic news economy.
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Anxious Times - Medicine And Modernity In Nineteenth-Century Britain

by Jennifer Wallis, Melissa Dickson e Sally Shuttleworth

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 Explores perceptions of the pressures of modern life and their impact on bodily and mental health in nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on both specialist and popular material, the authors consider anxieties surrounding the potentially detrimental impact of new technologies, changing work and leisure practices, and evolving cultural pressures.
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The Life And Legend Of James Watt - Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, And The Improvement Of The Steam Engine

by David Philip Miller

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 Offers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements but also ruthless in protecting his inventions and ideas, and determined in pursuit of money and fame.
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Nature From Within - Gustav Theodor Fechner And His Psychophysical Worldview

by Michael Heidelberger

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 Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887) was a German physicist, psychologist, and philosopher, best known as the founder of psychophysics, the experimental study of the relation between mental and physical processes. Michael Heidelberger's exploration of Fechner's writings reestablishes Fechner's place in the history and philosophy of science.
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Vision, Science And Literature, 1870-1920 - Ocular Horizons

by Martin Willis

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 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 organising 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.
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Inevitably Toxic - Historical Perspectives On Contamination, Exposure, And Expertise

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 Why are we warned about some toxic spaces substances and not others? The essays in this volume consider the exposure of bodies in four countries in the form of nuclear radiation, industrial waste, pesticides and future biological warfare. Research shows that appeals to uncertainty have led to social inaction even when evidence stares us in the face.
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Astronomy In India, 1784-1876

by Joydeep Sen

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 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.
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The Age Of Scientific Naturalism - Tyndall And His Contemporaries

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 Physicist John Tyndall and his contemporaries were at the forefront of developing the cosmology of scientific naturalism during the Victorian period.
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Uncommon Contexts - Encounters Between Science And Literature, 1800-1914

by Ben Marsden, Hazel Hutchinson e Ralph O'Connor

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The Making Of British Anthropology, 1813-1871

by Efram Sera-Shriar

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 Victorian anthropology has been derided as an "armchair practice," distinct from the scientific discipline of the twentieth century. Far from being an evolutionary dead end, nineteenth-century anthropology laid the foundations for the field-based science of anthropology today.
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Popular Exhibitions, Science And Showmanship, 1840-1910

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 Victorian culture was characterized by a proliferation of shows and exhibitions. These were encouraged by the development of new sciences and technologies, together with changes in transportation, education and leisure patterns. The essays in this collection look at exhibitions and their influence in terms of location, technology and ideology.
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Science And Eccentricity - Collecting, Writing And Performing Science For Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences

by Victoria Carroll

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 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.
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The Transit Of Venus Enterprise In Victorian Britain

by Jessica Ratcliff

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 In the nineteenth century, the British Government spent money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. This book presents a narrative of the two Victorian transit programmes. It draws out their cultural significance and explores the nature of i?1/2big sciencei?1/2 in late-Victorian Britain.
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Recreating Newton - Newtonian Biography And The Making Of Nineteenth-Century History Of Science

by Rebekah Higgitt

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 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.
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Knowledge In Translation - Global Patterns Of Scientific Exchange, 1000-1800 Ce

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 This exploration of the history of science focuses on translation, in all its forms, as an essential element in the communication of knowledge. Chapters trace several overlapping dynamics in the exchange of knowledge across the Eastern Hemisphere and beyond during the second millennium CE.
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Liberty And The Pursuit Of Knowledge - Charles Renouvier'S Political Philosophy Of Science

by Warren Schmaus

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 How Philosophy of Science Can Bring About Change in Political Life
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Edward Condon'S Cooperative Vision - Science, Industry, And Innovation In Modern America

by Thomas C. Lassman

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 Condon's cooperative model of R&D evolved over time, and by consequence, laid bare sharp disagreements among academic, corporate, and government stakeholders about the practical value of new knowledge, where and how it should be produced, and ultimately, on whose behalf it ought to be put to use.
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Kew Observatory And The Evolution Of Victorian Science, 1840-1910

by Lee T. Macdonald

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 Explores the extraordinary story of this important scientific institution as it rose to prominence during the Victorian era. This book offers fresh new insights into key historical issues in nineteenth-century science: the patronage of science; relations between science and government; the evolution of the observatory sciences; and the origins and early years of the National Physical Laboratory.
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Brewing Science, Technology And Print, 1700-1880

by James Sumner

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 How did the brewing of beer become a scientific process? James Sumner explores this question by charting the theory and practice of the trade in Britain and Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Domesticating Electricity - Technology, Uncertainty And Gender, 1880-1914

by Graeme Gooday

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 Offers an innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods. Gooday shows how technology, authority and gender interacted in pre-World War I Britain.
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