Philosophy
Philosophy from Greece and Rome to medieval and modern thought.
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Regionalizing Science: Placing Knowledges in Victorian England [Paperback]
Simon Naylor (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780822966425
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and 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 role of geography on these developments. Naylor seeks to rectify this imbalance by presenting a hist... .... Learn More -
Uncommon Contexts: Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800-1914 [Paperback]
Ben Marsden (Editor); Hazel Hutchinson (Editor); Ralph O'Connor (Editor)
£27.00ISBN: 9780822966418
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. Whilst poets and novelists took inspiration from technical and scientific innovations, those directly engaged in these new disciplines relied on liter... .... Learn More -
The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870-1914 [Paperback]
Claire L. Jones (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780822966388
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
By the late nineteenth century, advances in medical knowledge, technology and pharmaceuticals led to the development of a thriving commercial industry. The medical trade catalogue became one of the most important means of promoting the latest tool... .... Learn More -
Typhoid in Uppingham: Analysis of a Victorian Town and School in Crisis, 1875–1877 [Paperback]
Nigel Richardson (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780822966456
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and 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 explores public health strategy and central-local government relations during the mid-nineteenth-cent... .... Learn More -
The Age of Scientific Naturalism: Tyndall and His Contemporaries [Paperback]
Bernard Lightman (Editor); Michael S. Reidy (Editor)
£27.00ISBN: 9780822966401
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Physicist John Tyndall and his contemporaries were at the forefront of developing the cosmology of scientific naturalism during the Victorian period. They rejected all but physical laws as having any impact on the operations of human life and the ... .... Learn More -
The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain [Paperback]
Jessica Ratcliff (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780822966449
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
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 the... .... Learn More -
The Science of History in Victorian Britain: Making the Past Speak [Paperback]
Ian Hesketh (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780822966364
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
New attitudes towards history in nineteenth-century Britain saw a rejection of romantic, literary techniques in favour of a professionalized, scientific methodology. The development of history as a scientific discipline was undertaken by several k... .... Learn More -
Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland [Paperback]
Diarmid A. Finnegan (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780822966357
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Winner of the Frank Watson Prize in Scottish History, 2011 The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of ... .... Learn More -
Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland [Paperback]
Juliana Adelman (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780822966326
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
The nineteenth century was an important period for both the proliferation of "popular" science and for the demarcation of a group of professionals that we now term scientists. Of course for Ireland, largely in contrast to the rest of Britain, the ... .... Learn More -
Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture [Paperback]
Louise Penner (Editor); Tabitha Sparks (Editor)
£27.00ISBN: 9780822966432
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and 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 Charles Dickens’s involvement with hospital funding, concerns over milk purity and the theatrical po... .... Learn More
