Edward J. Gillin (University of Cambridge)

Gebundenes Buch

The Victorian Palace of Science

Beschreibung

Edward J. Gillin provides a dramatic account of how the building of the Houses of Parliament involved the use of radically new science and how, while under construction, Parliament became a laboratory and place of scientific experiment. This book will be of value to readers interested in Victorian science, architecture, and politics.

Autor

Edward J. Gillin completed a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford in 2015 and is now a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in British science, technology, architecture, and politics in the nineteenth century, with his current work focusing on the role of sound in the production of Victorian scientific knowledge. Previous works cover topics such as the Cunard Steamship Company, early-twentieth-century political protest, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Eastern steamship. He received the 2015 Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hawksmoor Medal, and in 2016 was awarded the Usher Prize from the Society for the History of Technology.

Produktdetails

• Science in History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9781108419666
• ISBN-10: 1108419666
• Artikelnr.: 48498309