Science / History

Sir Oliver Lodge was a polymathic scientific figure who linked the Victorian Age with the Second World War, a reassuring figure of continuity across his long life and career. A physicist and spiritualist, inventor and educator, author and authority, he was one of the most famous public figures of British ...

The Cosmopolitan and Practical Science of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Istanbul

The Ending of Tyndall’s Relationship with the Drummond Family, Disputes about His Glaciology Work, and More

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

The Crucial Role Urban Spaces Played in the Production of Scientific Knowledge in Dublin

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This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was fostered by a variety of factors, each of which is explored in detail: global trade and exploration, the popularity of collecting, the significance to the British economy and society, developments in Enlightenment science, changes in landscape gardening aesthetics and agricultural and horticultural improvement.Arboretums were idealized as microcosms of nature, miniature encapsulations of the globe and as living museums. This book critically examines different kinds of arboretum in order to understand the changing practical, scientific, aesthetic and pedagogical principles that underpinned their design, display and the way in which they were viewed. It is the first study of its kind and fills a gap in the literature on Victorian science and culture.

Revisiting the Origins, Development, and Popularization of the “Conflict Thesis”

Investigates the Ways World’s Fairs Expressed and Provoked Cold War Culture

Explores Public-Interest Science as a Potential Alternative to Commodification

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

A Deeper Understanding of the Work and Character of the Great Eighteenth-Century Engineer

Reveals Both the Gendered and Material Dimensions of Knowledge Production

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