Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382134640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science
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Category : Cultural policy
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science
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Category : Cultural policy
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Author: Great Britain. Board of Education. Consultative Committee
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Author: Peter J. T. Morris
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190844256
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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Now largely forgotten, Henry Enfield Roscoe was one of the most prominent chemists and educational reformers in Victorian Britain. His contributions include transforming Owens College into Victoria University, now the University of Manchester, campaigning for the reform of technical education, serving as the Liberal MP for South Manchester, and cofounding the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine. In this detailed biography, authors Morris and Reed provide a timely and original contribution to the history of nineteenth-century British science and its relation to education, industry, and government policy, highlighting Roscoe's significant legacy as one of the leading scientists of his generation.
Author: Spencer Fullerton Baird
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385365422
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Languages : en
Pages : 958
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Author: Heather Ellis
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137311746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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This book offers the first in-depth study of the masculine self-fashioning of scientific practitioners in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on the British Association for the Advancement of Science, founded in 1831, it explores the complex and dynamic shifts in the public image of the British ‘man of science’ and questions the status of the natural scientist as a modern masculine hero. Until now, science has been examined by cultural historians primarily for evidence about the ways in which scientific discourses have shaped prevailing notions about women and supported the growth of oppressive patriarchal structures. This volume, by contrast, offers the first in-depth study of the importance of ideals of masculinity in the construction of the male scientist and British scientific culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the eighteenth-century identification of the natural philosopher with the reclusive scholar, to early nineteenth-century attempts to reinvent the scientist as a fashionable gentleman, to his subsequent reimagining as the epitome of Victorian moral earnestness and meritocracy, Heather Ellis analyzes the complex and changing public image of the British ‘man of science’.
Author: Gowan Dawson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022610964X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Victorian Scientific Naturalism examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite. These scientific naturalists—led by biologists, physicists, and mathematicians such as William Kingdon Clifford, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, and John Tyndall—sought to persuade both the state and the public that scientists, not theologians, should be granted cultural authority, since their expertise gave them special insight into society, politics, and even ethics. In Victorian Scientific Naturalism, Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman bring together new essays by leading historians of science and literary critics that recall these scientific naturalists, in light of recent scholarship that has tended to sideline them, and that reevaluate their place in the broader landscape of nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging in topic from daring climbing expeditions in the Alps to the maintenance of aristocratic protocols of conduct at Kew Gardens, these essays offer a series of new perspectives on Victorian scientific naturalism—as well as its subsequent incarnations in the early twentieth century—that together provide an innovative understanding of the movement centering on the issues of community, identity, and continuity.
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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