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Imperial Bodies in London - Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880-1914 by Kristin Hussey
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Category: No Category | Series: Sci and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Ser.
Since the eighteenth century, European administrators and officers, military men, soldiers, missionaries, doctors, wives, and servants moved back and forth between Britain and its growing imperial territories. The introduction of steam-powered vessels, and deep-docks to accommodate them at London ports, ...Show more
Science, Oratory, and Culture in Gilded Age America by Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Category: No Category | Series: Sci and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Ser.
For many in the nineteenth century, the spoken word had a vivacity and power that exceeded other modes of communication. This conviction helped to sustain a diverse and dynamic lecture culture that provided a crucial vehicle for shaping and contesting cultural norms and beliefs. As science increasingly ...Show more
Symbols and Things - Mathematics in the Age of Steam by Kevin Lambert
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Category: No Category | Series: Sci and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Ser.
In the steam-powered mechanical age of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of late Georgian and early Victorian mathematicians depended on far more than the properties of number. British mathematicians came to rely on industrialized paper and pen manufacture, railways and mail, and the pri ...Show more
The Trinity Circle - Anxiety, Intelligence, and Knowledge Creation in Nineteenth-Century England by William J. Ashworth
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Category: No Category | Series: Sci and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Ser.
The Trinity Circle explores the creation of knowledge in nineteenth-century England, when any notion of a recognizably modern science was still nearly a century off, religion still infused all ways of elite knowing, and even those who denied its relevance had to work extremely hard to do so. The rise of ...Show more
Victorian Science and Imagery - Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Visual Culture by Nancy Rose Marshall
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Category: No Category | Series: Sci and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Ser.
The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and when art and visual culture produced new notions about the place of the human in the natural world. Just as scientists relied on g ...Show more
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