Diarmid A Finnegan,Jonathan Jeffrey Wright
Diarmid A Finnegan
The connections between science and civic culture in the Victorian period have been extensively, and intensively, investigated over the past several decades. Limited attention, however, has been paid to Irish urban contexts. Roman Catholic ...
George Combe and common sense [0.03%]
乔治康伯和常识
Sean Dyde
Sean Dyde
This article examines the history of two fields of enquiry in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland: the rise and fall of the common sense school of philosophy and phrenology as presented in the works of George Combe. Altho...
Sounding in silence: men, machines and the changing environment of naval discipline, 1796-1815 [0.03%]
沉默中的回响：机器、男子汉与1796-1815年间海军纪律环境的变迁
James Poskett
James Poskett
Logbooks and sea charts may appear rather straightforward evidence to present at a naval court martial. However, their introduction into proceedings in the early nineteenth century reveals an important shift. Measuring the depth of water so...
Florence Grant
Florence Grant
In 1761, George III commissioned a large group of philosophical instruments from the London instrument-maker George Adams. The purchase sprang from a complex plan of moral education devised for Prince George in the late 1750s by the third E...
Far from depleted… [0.03%]
远未枯竭……
Neeraja Sankaran
Neeraja Sankaran
Florin-Stefan Morar
Florin-Stefan Morar
This paper argues that we should take into account the process of historical transmission to enrich our understanding of material culture. More specifically, I want to show how the rewriting of history and the invention of tradition impact ...
'The televising of science is a process of television': establishing Horizon, 1962-1967 [0.03%]
《科学的电视传播是一个电视的过程》——建立地平线系列节目（1962—1967）
Timothy Boon
Timothy Boon
BBC Television's Horizon series, fifty years old on 2 May 2014, despite its significance to the history of the public culture of science, has been little studied. This microhistorical account follows the gestation and early years of the pro...