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Author | : Simon Naylor |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2016-09-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0822981807 |
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Victorian England, as is well known, produced an enormous amount of scientific endeavour, but what has previously been overlooked is the important role of geography on these developments. Naylor seeks to rectify this imbalance by presenting a historical geography of regional science. Taking an in-depth look at the county of Cornwall, questions on how science affected provincial Victorian society, how it changed people's relationship with the landscape and how it shaped society are applied to the Cornish case study, allowing a depth and texture of analysis denied to more general scientific overviews of the period.
Author | : Denise Phillips |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2015-02-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319121855 |
Download New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Taking a comparative national perspective, the book examines agricultural practices in a broad sense, including the practices and disciplines devoted to land management, forestry, soil science, and the improvement and management of crops and livestock. The life sciences considered include genetics, microbiology, ecology, entomology, forestry, and deal with US, European, Russian, Japanese, Indonesian, Chinese contexts. The book shows that the investigation of the border zone of life sciences and agriculture raises many interesting questions about how science develops. In particular it challenges one to re-examine and take seriously the intimate connection between scientific development and the practical goals of managing and improving – perhaps even recreating – the living world to serve human ends. Without close attention to this zone it is not possible to understand the emergence of new disciplines and transformation of old disciplines, to evaluate the role and impact of such major figures of science as Humboldt and Mendel, or to appreciate how much of the history of modern biology has been driven by national ambitions and imperialist expansion in competition with rival nations.
Author | : Kevin Padraic Donnelly |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2015-06-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0822981637 |
Download Adolphe Quetelet, Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Adolphe Quetelet was an influential astronomer and statistician whose controversial work inspired heated debate in European and American intellectual circles. In creating a science designed to explain the "average man," he helped contribute to the idea of normal, most enduringly in his creation of the Quetelet Index, which came to be known as the Body Mass Index. Kevin Donnelly presents the first scholarly biography of Quetelet, exploring his contribution to quantitative reasoning, his place in nineteenth-century intellectual history, and his profound influence on the modern idea of average.
Author | : Juliana Adelman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1317315758 |
Download Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Adelman challenges historians to reassess the relationship between science and society, showing that the unique situation in Victorian Ireland can nonetheless have important implications for wider European interpretations of the development of this relationship during a period of significant change.
Author | : Martin Willis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1317321847 |
Download Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the Victorian concept of vision across scientific and cultural forms. Willis charts the characterization of vision through four organizing principles – small, large, past and future – to arrive at a Victorian conception of what vision was. Willis then explores how this Victorian vision influenced twentieth-century ways of seeing.
Author | : Gowan Dawson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022667651X |
Download Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Significant characteristics of modern scientific journals, including their role in the certification and registration of scientific knowledge, emerged only toward the end of the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. The nineteenth century was a period of rapid expansion and diversification in scientific periodicals, and this collection sets the historical exploration of those periodicals on a new footing, examining their distinctive purposes and character. Specifically, it shows the important role they played in expanding, developing, and organizing communities of scientific practitioners and devotees during a century that witnessed blanket transformations in the scientific enterprise"--
Author | : Vladimir Lʹvovich Kvint |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780823223480 |
Download The Global Emerging Market in Transition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A compendium of the work of Vladimir L. Kvint, Global Emerging Market in Transition: Articles, Forecasts, and Studies is an essential guide to understanding the intricacies behind global trends and emerging markets. Starting with the explanations and definitions of global trends, classifications of different perspectives of emerging markets, and the general understanding of the nature of modern global emerging markets, Professor Kvint moves the reader through the current emerging markets in Europe, Central Asia, and Latin America, providing analyses and forecasts. He then presents an in-depth analysis of today's largest emerging market-Russia. Professor Kvint stresses the importance of Russia's move from a communist command system to a free-market economy, and how this will affect the business community politically, socially, and economically.
Author | : Roger Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2015-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317320441 |
Download Free Will and the Human Sciences in Britain, 1870–1910 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Smith takes an in-depth look at the question of free will through the prism of different disciplines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author | : Nicholas Allen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0198795157 |
Download Coastal Works Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been drawn to the coast as a zone of geographical uncertainty in which the self-definitions of the nation founder; they have been drawn to it as a peripheral space of vestigial wildness, of island retreats and experimental living; as a network of diverse localities richly endowed with distinctive forms of cultural heritage; and as a dynamically interconnected ecosystem, which is at the same time the historic site of significant developments in fieldwork and natural science. This collection situates these cultures of the Atlantic edge in a series of essays that create new contexts for coastal study in literary history and criticism. The contributors frame their research in response to emerging conversations in archipelagic criticism, the blue humanities, and island studies, the essays challenging the reader to reconsider ideas of margin, periphery and exchange. 0These twelve case studies establish the coast as a crucial location in the imaginative history of Britain, Ireland and the north Atlantic edge. Coastal Works will appeal to readers of literature and history with an interest in the sea, the environment, and the archipelago from the 18th century to the present. Accessible, innovative and provocative, Coastal Works establishes the important role that the coast plays in our cultural imaginary and suggests a range of methodologies to represent relationships between land, sea, and cultural work."--Dust jacket.
Author | : Sarah C. Alexander |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2015-06-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0822981882 |
Download Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Victorians are known for their commitment to materialism, evidenced by the dominance of empiricism in the sciences and realism in fiction. Yet there were other strains of thinking during the period in the physical sciences, social sciences, and literature that privileged the spacesbetweenthe material and immaterial. This book examines how the emerging language of the "imponderable" helped Victorian writers and physicists make sense of new experiences of modernity. As Sarah Alexander argues, while Victorian physicists were theorizing ether, energy and entropy, and non-Euclidean space and atom theories, writers such as Charles Dickens, William Morris, and Joseph Conrad used concepts of the imponderable to explore key issues of capitalism, imperialism, and social unrest.