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Offers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements but also ruthless in protecting his inventions and ideas, and determined in pursuit of money and fame.

Kevin Donnelly presents the first scholarly biography of Quetelet, exploring his contribution to quantitative reasoning, his place in nineteenth-century intellectual history, and his profound influence on the modern idea of average.

A Foundational Figure in Twentieth-Century Media Technology Whose Career Linked the Victorian Age with the Second World War

Examines British anthropology's engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era.

In the Victorian era, James Watt became an iconic engineer, but in his own time he was also an influential chemist. David Philip Miller examines Watt's illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel interest in chemistry, arguing that Watt's conception of steam engineering relied upon chemical understandings.

How did the brewing of beer become a scientific process? Sumner explores this question by charting the theory and practice of the trade in Britain and Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Traces the Early Evolution of Britain's System of Scientific Advice

How Intellectuals and Global Publics Viewed the Relationship between Evolution and Diverse Religious Traditions