Bøger i Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century serien

The Development of a Distinctive Public Science in Nineteenth-Century Australia

Revisiting the Origins, Development, and Popularization of the "Conflict Thesis"

Examines Debates Surrounding the First Articulations of a Science of Life and Experiments on the Processes of Organic Vitality

Explores a Transatlantic News Economy That Circulated Information and Actively Shaped New Claims about the Red Planet

The Pressures of Modern Life and Their Impact on Bodily and Mental Health in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Long before government cutbacks forced its closure in 1980, the observatory was run by both major bodies responsible for the management of science in Britain: first the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and then, from 1871, the Royal Society.

An innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods.

The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored museums.

An 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.