Download or read book Memoirs of John Martyn and of Thomas Martyn Professors of Botany in the University of Cambridge written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Spirit of Inquiry written by Susannah Gibson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambridge is now world-famous as a centre of science, but it wasn't always so. Before the nineteenth century, the sciences were of little importance in the University of Cambridge. But that began to change in 1819 when two young Cambridge fellows took a geological fieldtrip to the Isle of Wight. Adam Sedgwick and John Stevens Henslow spent their days there exploring, unearthing dazzling fossils, dreaming up elaborate theories about the formation of the earth, and bemoaning the lack of serious science in their ancient university. As they threw themselves into the exciting new science of geology - conjuring millions of years of history from the evidence they found in the island's rocks - they also began to dream of a new scientific society for Cambridge. This society would bring together like-minded young men who wished to learn of the latest science from overseas, and would encourage original research in Cambridge. It would be, they wrote, a society "to keep alive the spirit of inquiry". Their vision was realised when they founded the Cambridge Philosophical Society later that same year. Its founders could not have imagined the impact the Cambridge Philosophical Society would have: it was responsible for the first publication of Charles Darwin's scientific writings, and hosted some of the most heated debates about evolutionary theory in the nineteenth century; it saw the first announcement of x-ray diffraction by a young Lawrence Bragg - a technique that would revolutionise the physical, chemical and life sciences; it published the first paper by C.T.R. Wilson on his cloud chamber - a device that opened up a previously-unimaginable world of sub-atomic particles. 200 years on from the Society's foundation, this book reflects on the achievements of Sedgwick, Henslow, their peers, and their successors. Susannah Gibson explains how Cambridge moved from what Sedgwick saw as a "death-like stagnation" (really little more than a provincial training school for Church of England clergy) to being a world-leader in the sciences. And she shows how science, once a peripheral activity undertaken for interest by a small number of wealthy gentlemen, has transformed into an enormously well-funded activity that can affect every aspect of our lives.

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Download or read book The Works of William Cowper Comprising His Poems Correspondence and Translations With a Life of the Author by the Editor Robert Southey Illustrated with Fifty Five Engravings written by William Cowper and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Vindication of Dr Paley s Theory of Morals from the Principal Objections of Mr Dugald Stewart Mr Gisborne Dr Pearson and Dr Thomas Brown written by Latham Wainewright and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The British Arboretum written by Paul A. Elliott and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was fostered by a variety of factors, each of which is explored in detail: global trade and exploration, the popularity of collecting, the significance to the British economy and society, developments in Enlightenment science, changes in landscape gardening aesthetics and agricultural and horticultural improvement. Arboretums were idealized as microcosms of nature, miniature encapsulations of the globe and as living museums. This book critically examines different kinds of arboretum in order to understand the changing practical, scientific, aesthetic and pedagogical principles that underpinned their design, display and the way in which they were viewed. It is the first study of its kind and fills a gap in the literature on Victorian science and culture.

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Download or read book Vindication of Dr Paley s Theory of Morals from the Principal Objections of Mr Dugald Stewart Mr Gisborne Dr Pearson and Dr Thomas Brown with an Apx Containing Strictures on Some Remarks of Dr Whately written by Rev. Latham Wainewright and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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