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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The Annals of Electricity, Magnetism, and Chemistry; and Guardian of Experimental Science
Author: Annals of Electricity, Magnetism, and Chemistry
Author: William SturgeonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Annals of Electricity, Magnetism, and Chemistry
Author: William SturgeonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Annals of Electricity, Magnetism, and Chemistry
Author: A History of Physics: Phenomena, Ideas and Mechanisms
Author: Raffaele PisanoPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031261747
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Scientific Researches, Experimental and Theoretical, in Electricity, Magnetism, Galvanism, Electro-magnetism, and Electro-chemistry
Author: William SturgeonPublisher:
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Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Catalogue of Science and Technology, No
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
Author: Stella Pratt-SmithPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317007808
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. Revealing electricity as a site for intense and imaginative Victorian speculation, Stella Pratt-Smith traces the synthesis of nineteenth-century electricity made possible by the powerful combination of science, literature and the popular imagination. With electricity resisting clear description, even by those such as Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell who knew it best, Pratt-Smith argues that electricity was both metaphorically suggestive and open to imaginative speculation. Her book engages with Victorian scientific texts, popular and specialist periodicals and the work of leading midcentury novelists, including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, William Makepeace Thackeray and Wilkie Collins. Examining the work of William Harrison Ainsworth and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pratt-Smith explores how Victorian novelists attributed magical qualities to electricity, imbuing it with both the romance of the past and the thrill of the future. She concludes with a case study of Benjamin Lumley’s Another World, which presents an enticing fantasy of electricity’s potential based on contemporary developments. Ultimately, her book contends that writing and reading about electricity appropriated and expanded its imaginative scope, transformed its factual origins and applications and contravened the bounds of literary genres and disciplinary constraints.
An Empire of Magnetism
Author: Edward J. GillinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198890958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book offers an in-depth, global history of the British Magnetic Survey - the nineteenth-century, British-government-funded efforts to measure and understand the earth's magnetic field. These scientific efforts are situated within the context of the development of 'global science' and the ways they intersected with empire and colonialism.
Civilization and the Culture of Science
Author: Stephen GaukrogerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192588923
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values—and subsequently moral, political, and social ones—come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science, Stephen Gaukroger explores how these values were shaped and how they began, in turn, to shape those of society. The core nineteenth- and twentieth-century development is that in which science comes to take centre stage in determining ideas of civilization, displacing Christianity in this role. Christianity had provided a unifying thread in the study of the world, however, and science had to match this, which it did through the project of the unity of the sciences. The standing of science came to rest or fall on this question, which the book sets out to show in detail is essentially ideological, not something that arose from developments within the sciences, which remained pluralistic and modular. A crucial ingredient in this process was a fundamental rethinking of the relations between science and ethics, economics, philosophy, and engineering. In his engaging description of this transition to a scientific modernity, Gaukroger examines five of the issues which underpinned this shift in detail: changes in the understanding of civilization; the push to unify the sciences; the rise of the idea of the limits of scientific understanding; the concepts of 'applied' and 'popular' science; and the way in which the public was shaped in a scientific image.