Author: Abraham BoothPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368757628
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Stranger's Intellectual Guide to London, for 1839-40
Author: Abraham BoothPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368757628
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Book of British Topography
Author: John Parker AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Reign of the Beast
Author: Adrian DesmondPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1805112422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
In the 1830s, decades before Darwin published the Origin of Species, a museum of evolution flourished in London. Reign of the Beast pieces together the extraordinary story of this lost working-man's institution and its enigmatic owner, the wine merchant W. D. Saull. A financial backer of the anti-clerical Richard Carlile, the ‘Devil's Chaplain’ Robert Taylor, and socialist Robert Owen, Saull outraged polite society by putting humanity’s ape ancestry on display. He weaponized his museum fossils and empowered artisans with a knowledge of deep geological time that undermined the Creationist base of the Anglican state. His geology museum, called the biggest in Britain, housed over 20,000 fossils, including famous dinosaurs. Saull was indicted for blasphemy and reviled during his lifetime. After his death in 1855, his museum was demolished and he was expunged from the collective memory. Now multi-award-winning author Adrian Desmond undertakes a thorough reading of Home Office spy reports and subversive street prints to re-establish Saull's pivotal place at the intersection of the history of geology, atheism, socialism, and working-class radicalism.
Proceedings of the Numismatic Society, 1836/1837-1838/1839
Author: Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
London Zoo and the Victorians, 1828-1859
Author: Takashi ItoPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0861933214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
London Zoo examined in its nineteenth-century context, looking at its effect on cultural and social life At the dawn of the Victorian era, London Zoo became one of the metropolis's premier attractions. The crowds drawn to its bear pit included urban promenaders, gentlemen menagerists, Indian shipbuilders and Persian princes - CharlesDarwin himself. This book shows that the impact of the zoo's extensive collection of animals can only be understood in the context of a wide range of contemporary approaches to nature, and that it was not merely as a manifestation of British imperial culture. The author demonstrates how the early history of the zoo illuminates three important aspects of the history of nineteenth-century Britain: the politics of culture and leisure in a new public domain which included museums and art galleries; the professionalisation and popularisation of science in a consumer society; and the meanings of the animal world for a growing urban population. Weaving these threads altogether, hepresents a flexible frame of analysis to explain how the zoo was established, how it pursued its policies of animal collection, and how it responded to changing social conditions. Dr Takashi Ito is Associate Professor in Modern British History, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Records of the Dawn of Photography
Author: Larry J. SchaafPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521440513
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Full facsimile of two of the most important documents in the history of photography.
Catalogue of the Library of the Entomological Society of London
Author: Royal Entomological Society of London. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences
Author: James ElwickPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822981831
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Elwick explores how the concept of "compound individuality" brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. Scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units. Discussion of a "bodily economy" was widespread. But by 1860, the most flamboyant discussions of compound individuality had come to an end in Britain. Elwick relates the growth and decline of questions about compound individuality to wider nineteenth-century debates about research standards and causality. He uses specific technical case studies to address overarching themes of reason and scientific method.
The Book of British Topography. A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
Author: John Parker AndersonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385430143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Proceedings of the Numismatic Society
Author: Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description