Author: Royal society of artsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Official catalogue of the educational exhibition, held in St. Martin's hall, July 4, 1854. Ed. by G.W. Yapp
Author: Royal society of artsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates ...
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British MuseumAn Account of the Library of Art at Marlborough House, with a Catalogue of the Principal Works
Author: WornumFrancis Watkins and the Dollond Telescope Patent Controversy
Author: Brian GeePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317133307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Francis Watkins was an eminent figure in his field of mathematical and optical instrument making in mid-eighteenth century London. Working from original documents, Brian Gee has uncovered the life and times of an optical instrument maker, who - at first glance - was not among the most prominent in his field. In fact, because Francis Watkins came from a landed background, the diversification of his assets enabled him to weather particular business storms - discussed in this book - where colleagues without such an economic cushion, were pushed into bankruptcy or forced to emigrate. He played an important role in one of the most significant legal cases to touch this profession, namely the patenting of the achromatic lens in telescopes. The book explains Watkins's origins, and how and why he was drawn into partnership with the famous Dollond firm, who at that point were Huguenot incomers. The patent for the achromatic telescope has never been satisfactorily explained in the literature, and the author has gone back to the original legal documents, never before consulted. He teases out the problems, lays out the evidence, and comes to some interesting new conclusions, showing the Dollonds as hard-headed and ruthless businessmen, ultimately extremely successful. The latter part of the book accounts for the successors of Francis Watkins, and their decline after over a century of successful business in central London.
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Catalogue of the art library, South Kensington museum
Author: sir John Charles RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Science and Salvation
Author: Aileen FyfePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226276465
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society's authors employed a full repertoire of evangelical techniques—low prices, simple language, carefully structured narratives—to convert their readers. The application of such techniques to popular science resulted in one of the most widely available sources of information on the sciences in the Victorian era. A fascinating study of the tenuous relationship between science and religion in evangelical publishing, Science and Salvation examines questions of practice and faith from a fresh perspective. Rather than highlighting works by expert men of science, Aileen Fyfe instead considers a group of relatively undistinguished authors who used thinly veiled Christian rhetoric to educate first, but to convert as well. This important volume is destined to become essential reading for historians of science, religion, and publishing alike.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates
Author: C-Engineering. 1873
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jurisprudence
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description