Download or read book Traditions of Edinburgh written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chambers s Encyclop dia written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Robert Chambers of Edinburgh written by Iris Macfarlane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book on the life and times of Robert Chambers, founder of W. & R. Chambers publishers. Although there are now books based on some of his letters and on the impact of one of his books, The Vestiges of Natural Creation, there are no books on the whole man and his life. Written by Iris Macfarlane with Alan Macfarlane, the book weaves together three strands. At one level, it is a biography of Chambers and his family; the portrait of a rise from absolute poverty to great wealth and influence. At the second it provides the context of his life by the way of a portrait of nineteenth century Edinburgh as seen through his eyes. At the third it explores the intellectual and organisational revolutions embodied in his life, the explorations in history, folklore, geology, publishing, education and many other fields which made him one of the most exciting thinkers of his age. It is based on extensive archival research among the Chambers’ archives in Edinburgh and conversations with his descendants. Please note: This title is co-published with Social Science Press, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Download or read book Chambers s Information for the People written by William Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation written by Robert Chambers and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scottish author, publisher, and bookseller ROBERT CHAMBERS (18021871) knew that the radical theories about natural evolution he was espousing in this groundbreaking work would be controversial, so he published anonymously in 1844, and kept his identity a secret until 1884, long after Charles Darwins seminal Origin of Species had changed the tenor of modern scientific discourse. Indeed, Darwin praised Chambers daring, calling his book an excellent service that had swept away prejudice and prepared the public for introduction to Darwins similar ideas, for Chambers anticipated Darwin with his discussions of: the geological formation of the earth hypotheses on the development of the plant and animal kingdoms the early history of mankind and much more. Anyone interested in the history of science, the study of evolution, or the politics of science in the 19th century will enjoy this historic book."

Download or read book Chambers s Cyclop dia of English Literature written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book of Days written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chamber s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Gazetteer of Scotland written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Popular Rhymes of Scotland written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Steam Powered Knowledge written by Aileen Fyfe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the overwhelming amount of new information that bombards us each day, it is perhaps difficult to imagine a time when the widespread availability of the printed word was a novelty. In early nineteenth-century Britain, print was not novel—Gutenberg’s printing press had been around for nearly four centuries—but printed matter was still a rare and relatively expensive luxury. All this changed, however, as publishers began employing new technologies to astounding effect, mass-producing instructive and educational books and magazines and revolutionizing how knowledge was disseminated to the general public. In Steam-Powered Knowledge, Aileen Fyfe explores the activities of William Chambers and the W. & R. Chambers publishing firm during its formative years, documenting for the first time how new technologies were integrated into existing business systems. Chambers was one of the first publishers to abandon traditional skills associated with hand printing, instead favoring the latest innovations in printing processes and machinery: machine-made paper, stereotyping, and, especially, printing machines driven by steam power. The mid-nineteenth century also witnessed dramatic advances in transportation, and Chambers used proliferating railway networks and steamship routes to speed up communication and distribution. As a result, his high-tech publishing firm became an exemplar of commercial success by 1850 and outlived all of its rivals in the business of cheap instructive print. Fyfe follows Chambers’s journey from small-time bookseller and self-trained hand-press printer to wealthy and successful publisher of popular educational books on both sides of the Atlantic, demonstrating along the way the profound effects of his and his fellow publishers’ willingness, or unwillingness, to incorporate these technological innovations into their businesses.

Download or read book Chambers History written by William Davis Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some ancestry and many descendants of various Chambers emigrants from Scotland or England to the United States (and one immigrant to Canada). Descendants lived throughout the United States, and in Canada.

Download or read book Foot prints of the Creator Or The Asterolepis of Stromness written by Hugh Miller and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Few Rambling Remarks on Golf written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Traditions of Edinburgh Select Writings of Robert Chambers written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature From Columba to the Union until 1707 written by Ian Brown and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.