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Author: Nigel Richardson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-07-22
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1317313909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores public health strategy and central-local government relations during the mid-nineteenth-century, using the experience of Uppingham, England, as a micro-historical case study. This study compares the sanitary state of the community with others nearby, and Uppingham School with comparable schools of that era.
Author: Jacob Steere-Williams
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1648250025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows how the investigation of local outbreaks of typhoid fever in Victorian Britain led to the emergence of the modern discipline of epidemiology as the leading science of public health
Author: George Edwin Waring
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 358
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Edwin Waring
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-02-29
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 3385355311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author: George Edwin Waring (Jr.)
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 390
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Josep Simon
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2016-09-12
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 0822981688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe textbooks written by Adolphe Ganot (1804-1887) played a major role in shaping the way physics was taught in the nineteenth century. Ganot's books were translated from their original French into more than ten languages, including English, allowing their adoption as standard works in Britain and spreading their influence as far as North America, Australia, India and Japan. Simon's Franco-British case study looks at the role of Ganot's two textbooks: Traite elementaire de physique experimentale et appliquee (1851) and Cours de physique purement experimentale (1859), and their translations into English by Edmund Atkinson. The study is novel for its international comparison of nineteenth-century physics, its acknowledgement of the role of book production on the impact of the titles, and for its emphasis on the role of communication in the making of science.
Author: Bernard Lightman
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2016-02-19
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0822981645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhysicist John Tyndall and his contemporaries were at the forefront of developing the cosmology of scientific naturalism during the Victorian period. They rejected all but physical laws as having any impact on the operations of human life and the universe. Contributors focus on the way Tyndall and his correspondents developed their ideas through letters, periodicals and scientific journals and challenge previously held assumptions about who gained authority, and how they attained and defended their position within the scientific community.
Author: Ian Hesketh
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2016-09-12
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 082298184X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew attitudes towards history in nineteenth-century Britain saw a rejection of romantic, literary techniques in favour of a professionalized, scientific methodology. The development of history as a scientific discipline was undertaken by several key historians of the Victorian period, influenced by German scientific history and British natural philosophy. This study examines parallels between the professionalization of both history and science at the time, which have previously been overlooked. Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources—monographs, lectures, correspondence—from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.
Author: Victoria Carroll
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2016-09-12
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 0822981815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. This monograph is the first scholarly history of eccentricity. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order. She focuses on the self-taught natural philosopher William Martin, the fossilist Thomas Hawkins and the taxidermist Charles Waterton.
Author: L S Jacyna
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-09-30
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1317314921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn in-depth study of the English neurologist and polymath Sir Henry Head (1861-1940). Head bridged the gap between science and the arts. He was a published poet who had close links with such figures as Thomas Hardy and Siegfried Sassoon. His research into the nervous system and the relationship between language and the brain broke new ground.
