Science / History

Sir Oliver Lodge was an extraordinarily 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 ...

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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

Evaluating the Complexity Principle for Scholarship in the History of Science and ReligionEvaluating the Complexity Principle for Scholarship in the History of Science and Religion

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

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

Explores Public-Interest Science as a Potential Alternative to Commodification

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

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