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Book Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science  1815   1840

Download or read book Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science 1815 1840 written by E.C. Patterson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the myriad of changes that took place in Great Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century, many of particular significance to the historian of science and to the social historian are discernible in that small segment of British society drawn together by a shared interest in natural phenomena and with sufficient leisure or opportunity to investigate and ponder them. This group, which never numbered more than a mere handful in comparison to the whole population, may rightly be characterized as 'scientific'. They and their successors came to occupy an increasingly important place in the intellectual, educational, and developing economic life of the nation. Well before the arrival of mid-century, natural philosophers and inventors were generally hailed as a source of national pride and of national prestige. Scientific society is a feature of nineteenth-century British life, the best being found in London, in the universities, in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and in a few scattered provincial centres.

Book Mary Somerville  1780 1872

Download or read book Mary Somerville 1780 1872 written by Elizabeth Chambers Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth

Download or read book The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell  Bart

Download or read book Life Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell Bart written by Charles Lyell and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oxford University Gazette

Download or read book Oxford University Gazette written by University of Oxford and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notes and Queries

Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book London Lights

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  • Author : James Hamilton
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  • Release : 2007
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  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book London Lights written by James Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time of Nelson's death at Trafalgar to the opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park nearly fifty years later, London spread like a disease across the fields of Middlesex and Surrey. Foul and dangerous though it was to inhabit, in these decades London developed a new confidence in the intellectual purpose and lucrative promise of art, technology and science. This book is about the men and women who, through their genius and courage, luck and misfortune, anger and charm, put London at the cutting edge of cultural change. Theirs were the minds that moved the city that shook the world. They worked in basements and drawing rooms, in studios and museums, in learned societies and in the squalor of the debtors' prison. Charles Babbage created his calculating machines; John Martin devised a new system of clean water supply for London; John Mayall and Antoine Claudet perfected the daguerreotype; Michael Faraday harnessed electricity. They argued and fought, loved and envied, searched and dreamed, to convert the laws of nature into the purposes of life. Although it took fifty years to achieve maturity and direction, in the early decades of the nineteenth century London set itself on course to become the financial, entrepreneurial and intellectual capital of the world.

Book Chambers s Cyclopaedia of English Literature

Download or read book Chambers s Cyclopaedia of English Literature written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Examiner

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  • Release : 1841
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  • Pages : 842 pages

Download or read book Examiner written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Buildings for Bluestockings

Download or read book Buildings for Bluestockings written by Margaret Birney Vickery and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vickery's book, which includes floor plans and eight pages in color, examines the intimate relationship between a Victorian institution intended solely for women and the architectural theories of the period. In doing so, she sheds light on the role of the founders, such as Emily Davies at Girton, their goals for their colleges and the pressure which a reluctant and skeptical society placed upon them. Reformers in women's education were sometimes radical feminists, but more often the women and men who were involved were modest in their approach, arguing for little change in the status of women and veiling their ambitions for women's progress under a restrained and traditional rhetoric. This conservative approach conditioned the built environment of the colleges and is an important aspect of nineteenth-century British feminism." "Central to this book is the connection between the attitudes of Victorian society towards the higher education of women and the built environment. Feminist architectural historians and anthropologists are just beginning to explore these connections, and Vickery's book, with its focus on a gender-specific building type, offers insight into the ways in which the values of a society are encoded into the environment in which we live and work. It is therefore of interest not only to architectural historians, but to feminists, social historians, and anyone interested in the history of the collegiate environment."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book  Aberdeen Journal  Notes and Queries

Download or read book Aberdeen Journal Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Examiner

Download or read book The Examiner written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chambers s Cyclop  dia of English Literature

Download or read book Chambers s Cyclop dia of English Literature written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annals of the Royal Society Club

Download or read book Annals of the Royal Society Club written by Archibald Geikie and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1917 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athen  um

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  • Release : 1836
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  • Pages : 960 pages

Download or read book The Athen um written by and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book News Monthly

Download or read book Book News Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: