Download or read book The Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described written by Robert Gordon Latham and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described Zoology and Botany By E F written by Edward FORBES (Professor at King's College, London.) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described written by Robert Gordon Latham and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crystal Palace Company published a series of official handbooks in 1854 for displays in its Sydenham pleasure park. The "Natural History Court" had two organising themes. First, ethnology was a new discipline in the 1850s. Displays included material from thirteen exotic human groups. (Sometimes, they also included living visitors from those groups). Latham's guide emphasises what visitors could not see displayed, such as language and religious practices. He also shows his discipline's obsession with rankings - one culture against another - together with the cultural biases inherent in their work. Second, zoology and botany were represented by regional displays. Forbes was a naturalist in the tradition of Alexander von Humboldt. This catalogue mentions most of the specimens displayed. It also stresses fundamental principles of biogeography. Written five years before Darwin's Origin of Species, Forbes' essay nicely shows how naturalists theorized before evolutionary ideas took hold.
Download or read book The Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described written by Edward Forbes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described The Natural History, which forms the subject of this Handbook, is of a somewhat more comprehensive kind than the current meaning of the words would suggest. It comprises not only Botany and Zoology proper, but also Ethnology, or, the Science of Human Races. Ethnology, from the greater novelty of the subject and its comparative importance, occupies the first and larger part of this little volume. The second part is, however, absolutely necessary to the full illustration of the first; and in order that each may reflect due light upon the other, the reader will do well, after going through the notice of each Ethnological group, to refer to the corresponding description in the Botanical and Zoological portion. In the heading of each group is indicated the page for reference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book The Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described written by Robert Gordon Latham and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described Ethnology by Dr R G Latham Zoology and Botany by Edward Forbes written by Robert Gordon Latham and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crystal Palace Sydenham Natural History Department Ethnological Collection A list of desiderata written by William THOMSON (Curator of the Museums of Anatomy and Natural History, King's College, London.) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crystal Palace written by John McKean and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers one of the most influential buildings of the 19th century. Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace was the first public building to omit references to the past. Amid the historicist debates and battle of the styles of mid-19th-century Britain, Paxton's design was rational and straightforward.
Download or read book The Natural History Department written by Crystal Palace Company (Sydenham, England) and published by London : Crystal Palace Library. This book was released on 1854 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crystal Palace Sydenham Natural History Department written by Crystal Palace Company (Sydenham, London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alfred Russel Wallace written by John van Wyhe and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) during his famous travels of 1854-62 in the Malay Archipelago (now Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia). it was these travels which led him to come independently to the same conclusion as Charles Darwin: that evolution occurs through natural selection. Beautifully written, the letters are filled with lavish descriptions of the remote regions he explored, the peoples, and fascinating details of the many new species of mammals, birds, and insects he discovered during his time there. John van Wyhe and Kees Rookmaaker present new transcriptions of each of the letters, including recently discovered letters that shed light on the voyage and on questions such as Wallace's reluctance to publish on evolution, and why he famously chose to write to Darwin rather than to send his work to a journal directly. A revised account of Wallace's itinerary based on new research by the editors forms part of an introduction that sets the context of the voyage, and the volume includes full notes to all letters. Together the letters form a remarkable and vivid document of one of the most important journeys of the 19th century by a great Victorian naturalist.
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Download or read book Meet Me at the Fair A World s Fair Reader written by Celia Pearce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together with the Olympics, world's fairs are one of the few regular international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of sights, wonders, learning opportunities, technological advances, and new (or renewed) urban districts, and to present them all to a mass audience. Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader breaks new ground in scholarship on world's fairs by incorporating a number of short new texts that investigate world's fairs in their multiple aspects: political, urban/architectural, anthropological/ sociological, technological, commercial, popular, and representational. Contributors come from eight different countries and represent affiliations in academia, museums and libraries, professional and architectural firms, non-profit organizations, and government regulatory agencies. In taking the measure of both the material artifacts and the larger cultural production of world's fairs, the volume presents its own phantasmagoria of disciplinary perspectives, historical periods, geographical locales, media, and messages, mirroring the microcosmic form of the world's fair itself.
Download or read book Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace written by Kate Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The marble halls of the British Museum might seem the natural habitat for classical sculpture, but in the nineteenth century its sombre displays were far from being the only place that people encountered antiquities. From 1854, a rival collection of classical sculpture, comprising plaster casts from major European museums and scaled down architectural features, was on show in the South London suburb of Sydenham, in the Crystal Palace which had housed the Great Exhibition of 1851. By the late 1850s, two million visitors were passing through the glass doors of the Sydenham Crystal Palace each year, more than twice as many as recorded at the British Museum. Many more people, and from a greater variety of social strata, saw the painted cast of the Parthenon frieze in Sydenham than the original in Bloomsbury. Utilizing an extensive variety of archival material, including diaries, scrapbooks and photographs, Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace evokes visitor experiences at Sydenham, and examines the discussion that arose around the presentation of classical plaster casts to a mass audience. It uncovers the social, political, and aesthetic role of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in modern Britain, assessing how classical art figured in debates over design reform, taste, beauty and morality, class and gender, and race and imperialism.
