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Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945


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Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945 focuses on the social, cultural, industrial and economic contexts of science and technology from the ‘scientific revolution’ up to the Second World War. Publishing lively, original, innovative research across a broad spectrum of subjects and genres by an international list of authors, the series has a global compass that concerns the development of modern science in all regions of the world. Subjects may range from close studies of particular sciences and problems to cultural and social histories of science, technology and biomedicine; accounts of scientific travel and exploration; transnational histories of scientific and technological change; monographs examining instruments, their makers and users; the material and visual cultures of science; contextual studies of institutions and of individual scientists, engineers and popularizers of science; and well-edited volumes of essays on themes in the field.

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The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth Ideas and Expeditions in Four Centuries of Geodesy

The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth: Ideas and Expeditions in Four Centuries of Geodesy

1st Edition

By Michael Rand Hoare
January 29, 2024

In the 1730s two expeditions set out from Paris on extraordinary journeys; the first was destined for the equatorial region of Peru, the second headed north towards the Arctic Circle. Although the eighteenth century witnessed numerous such adventures, these expeditions were different. Rather than ...

Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics Science, Art and Technology in the Early Soviet Union

Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics: Science, Art and Technology in the Early Soviet Union

1st Edition

By Margarete Vöhringer
July 31, 2023

Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics presents an innovative look at the Russian avant-garde and its cultural encounters with the sciences in the 1920s. The book examines some of the lesser known entanglements between architects, filmmakers and philosophers, on the one hand, and experimental psychologists...

Hélène Metzger, Historian and Historiographer of the Sciences

Hélène Metzger, Historian and Historiographer of the Sciences

1st Edition

By Cristina Chimisso
December 05, 2019

Is there something important to learn from the history of science about knowledge and the mind? Do habits and emotions play a significant role in science? To what extent do present concerns and knowledge distort our understanding of past texts and practices? These are crucial questions in current ...

The Enlightenment of Thomas Beddoes Science, medicine, and reform

The Enlightenment of Thomas Beddoes: Science, medicine, and reform

1st Edition

By Trevor Levere, Larry Stewart, Hugh Torrens, Joseph Wachelder
June 28, 2018

Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) lived in ‘decidedly interesting times’ in which established orders in politics and science were challenged by revolutionary new ideas. Enthusiastically participating in the heady atmosphere of Enlightenment debate, Beddoes' career suffered from his radical views on ...

Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography

Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography

1st Edition

By Cornelius Borck
January 31, 2018

In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius Borck focuses on a recording technique developed by the German physiologist Hans Berger to register electric brain currents; a technique that was ...

Barcelona: An Urban History of Science and Modernity, 1888–1929

Barcelona: An Urban History of Science and Modernity, 1888–1929

1st Edition

By Oliver Hochadel, Agustí Nieto-Galan
October 23, 2017

The four decades between the two Universal Exhibitions of 1888 and 1929 were formative in the creation of modern Barcelona. Architecture and art blossomed in the work of Antoni Gaudi­ and many others. At the same time, social unrest tore the city apart. Topics such as art nouveau and anarchism ...

Pursuing the Unity of Science Ideology and Scientific Practice from the Great War to the Cold War

Pursuing the Unity of Science: Ideology and Scientific Practice from the Great War to the Cold War

1st Edition

Edited By Harmke Kamminga, Geert Somsen
October 13, 2017

From 1918 to the late 1940s, a host of influential scientists and intellectuals in Europe and North America were engaged in a number of far-reaching unity of science projects. In this period of deep social and political divisions, scientists collaborated to unify sciences across disciplinary ...

John Herschel's Cape Voyage Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire

John Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire

1st Edition

By Steven Ruskin
September 14, 2017

In 1833 John Herschel sailed from London to Cape Town, southern Africa, to undertake (at his own expense) an astronomical exploration of the southern heavens, as well as a terrestrial exploration of the area around Cape Town. After his return to England in 1838, and as a result of his voyage, he ...

Entrepreneurial Ventures in Chemistry The Muspratts of Liverpool, 1793-1934

Entrepreneurial Ventures in Chemistry: The Muspratts of Liverpool, 1793-1934

1st Edition

By Peter Reed
June 14, 2017

The Muspratt family form a fascinating dynasty in the history of British commerce and manufacturing. Associated principally with the development of the chemical industry in Liverpool - James Muspratt (1793-1884) was the first person to make alkali on a large scale using the Leblanc Process - the ...

Sir James Dewar, 1842–1923 A Ruthless Chemist

Sir James Dewar, 1842–1923: A Ruthless Chemist

1st Edition

By J.S. Rowlinson
May 25, 2017

Sir James Dewar was a major figure in British chemistry for around 40 years. He held the posts of Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge (1875-1923) and Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution (1877-1923) and is remembered principally for his efforts to liquefy ...

Chemical Structure, Spatial Arrangement The Early History of Stereochemistry, 1874–1914

Chemical Structure, Spatial Arrangement: The Early History of Stereochemistry, 1874–1914

1st Edition

By Peter J. Ramberg
March 06, 2017

Offering a comprehensive narrative of the early history of stereochemistry, Dr Ramberg explores the reasons for and the consequences of the fundamental change in the meaning of chemical formulas with the emergence of stereochemistry during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. As yet ...

Discovering Water James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century 'Water Controversy'

Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century 'Water Controversy'

1st Edition

By David Philip Miller
March 06, 2017

The 'water controversy' concerns one of the central discoveries of modern science, that water is not an element but rather a compound. The allocation of priority in this discovery was contentious in the 1780s and has occupied a number of 20th century historians. The matter is tied up with the ...

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