Author: Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 178683006X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
This book provides an accessible and authoritative biography of the Welsh man of science, William Robert Grove. Grove was an important and highly influential figure in Victorian science. His career as both man of science and leading barrister and judge spanned the Victorian age, and he also played a vital role in the movement to reform the Royal Society. This biography will set Grove’s career and contributions in context, paying particular attention to the important role of Welsh industrial culture in forming his scientific outlook. The place of science in culture changed radically during the course of the nineteenth century, and Grove himself played a key role in some of those transformations. Looking at his life in science can, however, do more than illuminate an individual scientific career – it can offer a way of gaining new insights into the changing face of Victorian science.
William Robert Grove
Author: Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786830051
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
William Robert Grove is one of the forgotten giants of nineteenth-century science. The improvements in battery technology developed by him helped power the Victorian telegraph; his essay On The Correlation of Physical Forces was widely recognised as a major contribution to natural philosophy; and he was the driving force behind the mid-century reform of the Royal Society. This book follows his scientific career and the culture of Victorian science within which he worked, to explore the ways in which he contributed to forging a distinct Welsh scientific identity in the nineteenth century.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786830051
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
William Robert Grove is one of the forgotten giants of nineteenth-century science. The improvements in battery technology developed by him helped power the Victorian telegraph; his essay On The Correlation of Physical Forces was widely recognised as a major contribution to natural philosophy; and he was the driving force behind the mid-century reform of the Royal Society. This book follows his scientific career and the culture of Victorian science within which he worked, to explore the ways in which he contributed to forging a distinct Welsh scientific identity in the nineteenth century.
William Robert Grove
Author: Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 178683006X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
This book provides an accessible and authoritative biography of the Welsh man of science, William Robert Grove. Grove was an important and highly influential figure in Victorian science. His career as both man of science and leading barrister and judge spanned the Victorian age, and he also played a vital role in the movement to reform the Royal Society. This biography will set Grove’s career and contributions in context, paying particular attention to the important role of Welsh industrial culture in forming his scientific outlook. The place of science in culture changed radically during the course of the nineteenth century, and Grove himself played a key role in some of those transformations. Looking at his life in science can, however, do more than illuminate an individual scientific career – it can offer a way of gaining new insights into the changing face of Victorian science.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 178683006X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
This book provides an accessible and authoritative biography of the Welsh man of science, William Robert Grove. Grove was an important and highly influential figure in Victorian science. His career as both man of science and leading barrister and judge spanned the Victorian age, and he also played a vital role in the movement to reform the Royal Society. This biography will set Grove’s career and contributions in context, paying particular attention to the important role of Welsh industrial culture in forming his scientific outlook. The place of science in culture changed radically during the course of the nineteenth century, and Grove himself played a key role in some of those transformations. Looking at his life in science can, however, do more than illuminate an individual scientific career – it can offer a way of gaining new insights into the changing face of Victorian science.
The Correlation of Physical Forces
Author: William Robert Grove
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Force and energy
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Force and energy
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
On the Correlation of Physical Forces: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures ...
Author: Sir William Robert Grove
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century (Icon Science)
Author: Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1785782681
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The only scientist to ever appear on the British twenty pound note, Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science. Faraday's forte was electricity, a revolutionary force in nineteenth-century society. The electric telegraph had made mass-communication possible and inventors looked forward to the day when electricity would control all aspects of life. By the end of the century, this dream was well on its way to being realised. But what was Faraday's role in all this? How did his science come to have such an impact on the lives of the Victorians (and ultimately on us)? Iwan Morus tells the story of Faraday's upbringing in London and his apprenticeship at the Royal Institution under the supervision of the flamboyant chemist, Sir Humphry Davy, all set against the backdrop of a vibrant scientific culture and an empire near the peak of its power.
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1785782681
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The only scientist to ever appear on the British twenty pound note, Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science. Faraday's forte was electricity, a revolutionary force in nineteenth-century society. The electric telegraph had made mass-communication possible and inventors looked forward to the day when electricity would control all aspects of life. By the end of the century, this dream was well on its way to being realised. But what was Faraday's role in all this? How did his science come to have such an impact on the lives of the Victorians (and ultimately on us)? Iwan Morus tells the story of Faraday's upbringing in London and his apprenticeship at the Royal Institution under the supervision of the flamboyant chemist, Sir Humphry Davy, all set against the backdrop of a vibrant scientific culture and an empire near the peak of its power.
Synthesizing Gravity
Author: Kay Ryan
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802148190
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The first-ever collection of essays by one of our most distinguished poets, the Pulitzer Prize–winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States. Synthesizing Gravity gathers for the first time a thirty-year selection of Kay Ryan’s probings into aesthetics, poetics, and the mind in pursuit of art. A bracing collection of critical prose, book reviews, and her private previously unpublished soundings of poems and poets—including Robert Frost, Stevie Smith, Marianne Moore, William Bronk, and Emily Dickinson—Synthesizing Gravity bristles with Ryan’s crisp wit, her keen off-kilter insights, and her appetite and appreciation for the genuine. Among essays like “Radiantly Indefensible,” “Notes on the Danger of Notebooks,” and “The Abrasion of Loneliness,” are piquant pieces on the virtues of emptiness, forgetfulness and other under-loved concepts. Edited and with an introduction by Christian Wiman, this generous collection of Ryan’s distinctive thinking gives us a surprising look into the mind of an American master. “Synthesizing Gravity is a delight, if a tart and idiosyncratic one . . . If Ryan gives us a view through a keyhole, it’s a view often made richer by its constraints.” —The New York Times Book Review “Reading Ryan’s writing will charge and recharge the mind . . . a wonderful entry point to her work.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Brilliant . . . For poetry enthusiasts and skeptics alike, this will be an inviting portal into the mind of one of America’s greatest living writers.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Damn fine prose . . . What a wonderful voice [Ryan] displays.” —John Freeman, “Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020”
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802148190
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The first-ever collection of essays by one of our most distinguished poets, the Pulitzer Prize–winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States. Synthesizing Gravity gathers for the first time a thirty-year selection of Kay Ryan’s probings into aesthetics, poetics, and the mind in pursuit of art. A bracing collection of critical prose, book reviews, and her private previously unpublished soundings of poems and poets—including Robert Frost, Stevie Smith, Marianne Moore, William Bronk, and Emily Dickinson—Synthesizing Gravity bristles with Ryan’s crisp wit, her keen off-kilter insights, and her appetite and appreciation for the genuine. Among essays like “Radiantly Indefensible,” “Notes on the Danger of Notebooks,” and “The Abrasion of Loneliness,” are piquant pieces on the virtues of emptiness, forgetfulness and other under-loved concepts. Edited and with an introduction by Christian Wiman, this generous collection of Ryan’s distinctive thinking gives us a surprising look into the mind of an American master. “Synthesizing Gravity is a delight, if a tart and idiosyncratic one . . . If Ryan gives us a view through a keyhole, it’s a view often made richer by its constraints.” —The New York Times Book Review “Reading Ryan’s writing will charge and recharge the mind . . . a wonderful entry point to her work.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Brilliant . . . For poetry enthusiasts and skeptics alike, this will be an inviting portal into the mind of one of America’s greatest living writers.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Damn fine prose . . . What a wonderful voice [Ryan] displays.” —John Freeman, “Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020”
Children of the Grove
Author: Robert Halmo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Born the mortal sons of a magical ashterim, Eri and Nithell hold the key to Elder Earthb s survival against an awakening darkness. Magic, fantastic creatures, Living Shadow, wild gods, wars, and love are a sampling of what lies in store.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Born the mortal sons of a magical ashterim, Eri and Nithell hold the key to Elder Earthb s survival against an awakening darkness. Magic, fantastic creatures, Living Shadow, wild gods, wars, and love are a sampling of what lies in store.
Cases and Materials on Patent Law
Author: William H. Francis
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
The Sixth Edition has been completely updated and includes new Supreme Court decisions on claim construction, injunctions and plant patents. It also includes new en banc decisions of the CAFC. There is also a new Teacher's Manual that includes case outlines, interesting materials, and teaching points. In addition the new edition of the Teacher's Manual includes: bull; Amusing patents and famous patents for teachers to share with students to enrich and inform their study bull; A portion of an oral argument to make a point about always being prepared bull; Detailed case outlines for all of the cases in the book bull; A discussion about critical theory (i.e. text interpretation) as it relates to patent law bull; Writings by judges on the practice of patent law bull; A sample writing assignment bull; Sample final examinations for both 2- and 3-credit hour courses
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
The Sixth Edition has been completely updated and includes new Supreme Court decisions on claim construction, injunctions and plant patents. It also includes new en banc decisions of the CAFC. There is also a new Teacher's Manual that includes case outlines, interesting materials, and teaching points. In addition the new edition of the Teacher's Manual includes: bull; Amusing patents and famous patents for teachers to share with students to enrich and inform their study bull; A portion of an oral argument to make a point about always being prepared bull; Detailed case outlines for all of the cases in the book bull; A discussion about critical theory (i.e. text interpretation) as it relates to patent law bull; Writings by judges on the practice of patent law bull; A sample writing assignment bull; Sample final examinations for both 2- and 3-credit hour courses
The Birth of the Fuel Cell, 1835-1845
Author: Ulf Bossel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783905592092
Category : Electrochemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783905592092
Category : Electrochemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Gowan Dawson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022667651X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants in local natural history clubs. In addition to disseminating authorized scientific discovery, they fostered a sense of collective identity among their geographically dispersed and often socially disparate readers by facilitating the reciprocal interchange of ideas and information. As such, they offer privileged access into the workings of scientific communities in the period. The essays in this volume set the historical exploration of the scientific and medical periodicals of the era on a new footing, examining their precise function and role in the making of nineteenth-century science and enhancing our vision of the shifting communities and practices of science in the period. This radical rethinking of the scientific journal offers a new approach to the reconfiguration of the sciences in nineteenth-century Britain and sheds instructive light on contemporary debates about the purpose, practices, and price of scientific journals.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022667651X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants in local natural history clubs. In addition to disseminating authorized scientific discovery, they fostered a sense of collective identity among their geographically dispersed and often socially disparate readers by facilitating the reciprocal interchange of ideas and information. As such, they offer privileged access into the workings of scientific communities in the period. The essays in this volume set the historical exploration of the scientific and medical periodicals of the era on a new footing, examining their precise function and role in the making of nineteenth-century science and enhancing our vision of the shifting communities and practices of science in the period. This radical rethinking of the scientific journal offers a new approach to the reconfiguration of the sciences in nineteenth-century Britain and sheds instructive light on contemporary debates about the purpose, practices, and price of scientific journals.