Author: John Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom in Three Parts. ... By John Williams, Mineral Surveyor, F.S.S.A. In Two Volumes. ...
Author: John Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom in Three Parts. ... By John Williams, Mineral Surveyor, F.S.S.A. In Two Volumes. ...
Author: John Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom in Three Parts. ... By John Williams, Mineral Surveyor, F.S.S.A. In Two Volumes
Author: John Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Language of Mineralogy
Author: Matthew D. Eddy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351887149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Classification is an important part of science, yet the specific methods used to construct Enlightenment systems of natural history have proven to be the bĂȘte noir of studies of eighteenth-century culture. One reason that systematic classification has received so little attention is that natural history was an extremely diverse subject which appealed to a wide range of practitioners, including wealthy patrons, professionals, and educators. In order to show how the classification practices of a defined institutional setting enabled naturalists to create systems of natural history, this book focuses on developments at Edinburgh's medical school, one of Europe's leading medical programs. In particular, it concentrates on one of Scotland's most influential Enlightenment naturalists, Rev Dr John Walker, the professor of natural history at the school from 1779 to 1803. Walker was a traveller, cleric, author and advisor to extremely powerful aristocratic and government patrons, as well as teacher to hundreds of students, some of whom would go on to become influential industrialists, scientists, physicians and politicians. This book explains how Walker used his networks of patrons and early training in chemistry to become an eighteenth-century naturalist. Walker's mineralogy was based firmly in chemistry, an approach common in Edinburgh's medical school, but a connection that has been generally overlooked in the history of British geology. By explicitly connecting eighteenth-century geology to the chemistry being taught in medical settings, this book offers a dynamic new interpretation of the nascent earth sciences as they were practiced in Enlightenment Britain. Because of Walker's influence on his many students, the book also provides a unique insight into how many of Britain's leading Regency and Victorian intellectuals were taught to think about the composition and structure of the material world.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351887149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Classification is an important part of science, yet the specific methods used to construct Enlightenment systems of natural history have proven to be the bĂȘte noir of studies of eighteenth-century culture. One reason that systematic classification has received so little attention is that natural history was an extremely diverse subject which appealed to a wide range of practitioners, including wealthy patrons, professionals, and educators. In order to show how the classification practices of a defined institutional setting enabled naturalists to create systems of natural history, this book focuses on developments at Edinburgh's medical school, one of Europe's leading medical programs. In particular, it concentrates on one of Scotland's most influential Enlightenment naturalists, Rev Dr John Walker, the professor of natural history at the school from 1779 to 1803. Walker was a traveller, cleric, author and advisor to extremely powerful aristocratic and government patrons, as well as teacher to hundreds of students, some of whom would go on to become influential industrialists, scientists, physicians and politicians. This book explains how Walker used his networks of patrons and early training in chemistry to become an eighteenth-century naturalist. Walker's mineralogy was based firmly in chemistry, an approach common in Edinburgh's medical school, but a connection that has been generally overlooked in the history of British geology. By explicitly connecting eighteenth-century geology to the chemistry being taught in medical settings, this book offers a dynamic new interpretation of the nascent earth sciences as they were practiced in Enlightenment Britain. Because of Walker's influence on his many students, the book also provides a unique insight into how many of Britain's leading Regency and Victorian intellectuals were taught to think about the composition and structure of the material world.
The Gentleman's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Contains opinions and comment on other currently published newspapers and magazines, a selection of poetry, essays, historical events, voyages, news (foreign and domestic) including news of North America, a register of the month's new publications, a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs, a summary of monthly events, vital statistics (births, deaths, marriages), preferments, commodity prices. Samuel Johnson contributed parliamentary reports as "Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Contains opinions and comment on other currently published newspapers and magazines, a selection of poetry, essays, historical events, voyages, news (foreign and domestic) including news of North America, a register of the month's new publications, a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs, a summary of monthly events, vital statistics (births, deaths, marriages), preferments, commodity prices. Samuel Johnson contributed parliamentary reports as "Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia."
A Practical Treatise on the Efficacy of Bloodletting, in the Epidemic Fever of Edinburgh
Author: Benjamin Welsh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epidemics
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epidemics
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Monthly Review; Or, New Literary Journal
Author: Ralph Griffiths
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Eclectic Review
Author: Samuel Greatheed
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The Literary Panorama, and National Register
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description