Victorian Material Culture

Herausgeber: Jardine, Boris; Nall, Josh

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and culture. This second volume, 'Science and Medicine', will examine objects (from the most significant to the most obscure) that played a part in nineteenth-century scientific developments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1021g
• ISBN-13: 9781138225282
• ISBN-10: 1138225282
• Artikelnr.: 69944420

Autorenporträt

Boris Jardine is a research fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science/Whipple Museum, University of Cambridge, UK. Joshua Nall is Curator of Modern Sciences at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Practice 1.1 Natural philosophy Headnote 1.1 1. George Adams
'Lecture I: On the Nature and Properties of Air'
in Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy
Considered in it's [sic] Present State of Improvement
vol. 1
1st edition (London: R. Hindmarsh
1794)
pp. 1-12. 1.2 Astronomy and navigation Headnote 1.2 2. Neville Maskelyne (on behalf of 'The Commissioners appointed by Acts of Parliament for the discovery of the Longitude at Sea &c. &c.')
'Draft instructions for John Crosley to go on a voyage to New Holland on board HMS Investigator'
manuscript
signed 7 March 1801. 3. John Frederick William Herschel
'Of the Nature of Astronomical Instruments and Observations in General'
in A Treatise on Astronomy
1st ed. (London: Longman
Rees
Orme
Brown
Green
Longman
and John Taylor
1833)
pp. 64-70. 4. George Biddell Airy
'Astronomy'
in J. F. W. Herschel (ed.)
A Manual of Scientific Enquiry: Prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy
and Adapted for Travellers in General
1st ed. (London: John Murray
1849)
pp. 1-5
7-10. 1.3 Meteorology Headnote 1.3 5. Luke Howard
'Of the Barometer'
in The Climate of London
Deduced from Meteorological Observations Made in the Metropolis and at Various Places around It
vol. 1
2nd ed. (London: Harvey and Darton
J. and A. Arch
Longman
Hatchard
S. Highley [and] R. Hunter
1833)
pp. viii-xi. 6. John Frederick William Herschel
'Of Meteorological Instruments; and first
of the Barometer and its attached Thermometer'
in J. F. W. Herschel (ed.)
A Manual of Scientific Enquiry: Prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy
and Adapted for Travellers in General
1st ed. (London: John Murray
1849)
pp. 273-280. 7. Robert H. Scott
'Kew Marine Barometer'
in Instructions in the Use of Meteorological Instruments (London: HMSO
1875)
pp. 19-22. 1.4 Geography and exploration Headnote 1.4 8. Francis Galton
'Letter Addressed by Frances Galton
Esq.
to the Secretary'
in 'Hints to Travellers'
Journal of the Royal Geographical Society
24 (1854)
pp. 345-53. 9. William Ford Stanley
'Packing of Instruments'
in Surveying and Levelling Instruments Theoretically and Practically Described (London: E. and F. N. Spon
1890)
pp. 21-23. 1.5 Metrology Headnote 1.5 10. Charles Piazzi Smyth
'Instrumentals'
in Life and Work at the Great Pyramid
vol. 1 (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas
1867)
pp. 272-295 298-303
305-306
308-311. 1.6 Natural history Headnote 1.6 11. Charles Darwin
'Geology'
in J. F. W. Herschel (ed.)
A Manual of Scientific Inquiry; Prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy: And Adapted for Travellers in General
1st ed. (London: John Murray 1849)
pp. 157-158
160-169
183-186
190-191
194-195. 12. Richard Owen
'Zoology'
in J. F. W. Herschel (ed.)
A Manual of Scientific Inquiry; Prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy: And Adapted for Travellers in General
1st ed. (London: John Murray 1849)
[extract:] pp. 343
345-89. 13. William Hooker
'Botany'
in J. F. W. Herschel (ed.)
A Manual of Scientific Inquiry; Prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy: And Adapted for Travellers in General
1st ed. (London: John Murray 1849)
pp. 400-407. 14. J. C. Prichard
'Ethnology'
in J. F. W. Herschel (ed.)
A Manual of Scientific Inquiry; Prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy: And Adapted for Travellers in General
1st ed. (London: John Murray 1849)
[extract:] pp. 423
425-427. 1.7 Microscopy Headnote 1.7 15. Charles R. Goring
'On Mr. Tulley's thick aplanatic object-glasses
for diverging rays; with an account of a few microscopic test objects'
Quarterly Journal of Science
Literature
and the Arts
22 (1826)
265-284. 16. Jabez Hogg
The Microscope (London: W.S. Orr
1854)
pp. [v]-viii. 17. Charles Darwin 'On the use of the microscope on board ship'
in J. F. W. Herschel (ed.)
A Manual of Scientific Enquiry: Prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy
and Adapted for Travellers in General
1st ed. (London: John Murray
1849)
pp. 389-393. 1.8 Medicine Headnote 1.8 18. René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec
'Introduction'
and John Forbes
'Explanation of the Plates'
in A Treatise on the Diseases of the Chest
and on Mediate Auscultation
trans. John Forbes
4th ed. (London: Longman
Rees
Orme
Brown
Green
and Longman
1834)
pp. 4-8
673-675. 19. D. M. Cammann
'An Historical Sketch of the Stethoscope'
Transactions of the Second Annual Meeting of the American Climatological Association (New York: Appleton & Co.
1886)
pp. 170-174. 20. Charles Denison
'The Essentials of a Good Stethoscope'
Medical Record
42:17 (1892)
pp. 494-495. 21. K. Schall
'Apparatus for Roentgen X Rays' and 'Franklinisation'
in Electro-Medical Instruments and their Management
and Illustrated Price List of Electro-Medical Apparatus
5th ed. (Bristol: John Wright & Co.
1896)
pp. 39-42
51-52. 1.9 Chemistry Headnote 1.9 22. [Jane Marcet]
'On Hydrogen'
in Conversations on Chemistry; in which the Elements of That Science are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
Vol. 1: On Simple Bodies
5th ed. (London: Longman
Hurst
Rees
Orme
and Brown
1817)
pp. 220-247
249-255. 1.10 The laboratory revolution Headnote 1.10 23. [Anon.]
'New Laboratory
University College
London'
Illustrated London News
30 May 1846
p. 348. 24. Joseph Dalton Hooker
'On the Plans of the New Laboratory for Investigations in Vegetable Physiology at Kew'
in [South Kensington Museum]
Conferences Held in Connection with the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus
1876
Vol. II: Chemistry
Biology
Physical Geography
Geology
Mineralogy
and Meteorology (London: Chapman and Hall
1876)
pp. 157-161. 25. [Anon.]
'The New Physical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge'
Nature
10 (25 June 1874)
pp. 139-142. 26. Edward Cookworthy Robins
'Buildings for Applied Science and Art Instruction'
in Papers on Technical Education
Applied Science Buildings
Fittings and Sanitation (London: J. Davy
1885)
pp. 1-19. 1.11 Physics Headnote 1.11 27. James Clerk Maxwell
'General Considerations Concerning Scientific Apparatus'
in [South Kensington Museum]
Handbook to the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus
1876 (London: Chapman and Hall
1876)
pp. 1-21. 1.12 Physiology Headnote 1.12 28. J. Burdon Sanderson
'Section-Biology: President's Opening Address'
in [South Kensington Museum]
Conferences Held in Connection with the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus
1876
Vol. II: Chemistry
Biology
Physical Geography
Geology
Mineralogy
and Meteorology (London: Chapman and Hall
1876)
pp. 149-150
153-156. 29. Thiselton Dyer
'On Various Apparatus for Investigations in Vegetable Physiology'
in [South Kensington Museum]
Conferences Held in Connection with the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus
1876
Vol. II: Chemistry
Biology
Physical Geography
Geology
Mineralogy
and Meteorology (London: Chapman and Hall
1876)
pp. 161-65. 30. Étienne-Jules Marey
'Apparatus for Registering Animal Movements'
in [South Kensington Museum]
Conferences Held in Connection with the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus
1876
Vol. II: Chemistry
Biology
Physical Geography
Geology
Mineralogy
and Meteorology (London: Chapman and Hall
1876)
pp. 165-69. 31. Edward Albert Schäfer
'On Some Recent Improvements in Recording Apparatus'
in [South Kensington Museum]
Conferences Held in Connection with the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus
1876
Vol. II: Chemistry
Biology
Physical Geography
Geology
Mineralogy
and Meteorology (London: Chapman and Hall
1876)
pp. 169-70. 1.13 Spectroscopy Headnote 1.13 32. Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen
'Chemical Analysis by Spectrum-Observations'
Philosophical Magazine
20 (4th ser.) (1860)
pp. 89-93
107-108. 33. Robert Routledge
'The spectroscope'
in Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century
1st ed. (London: George Routledge and Sons
1876)
pp. 302-03
308-310
312-313
322-324
330-31. 34. 'Spectrum apparatus in action
showing the spectra of the metals'
plate in John Browning
How to Work with the Spectroscope
2nd ed. (London: John Browning
1882)
p. 32. 1.14 Astrophysics Headnote 1.14 35. Agnes M. Clerke
'Methods of Research'
in A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century
1st ed. (Edinburgh: A. and C. Black
1885)
pp. 440-53. 36. Richard A. Proctor
'Proctor on the Big Lens: He Thinks the Lick Telescope will Disappoint Science'
New York World
27 February 1887
p. 17. 37. Alvan G. Clark
'Great telescopes of the future'
Astronomy and Astro-physics
12:8 (1893)
pp. 673-678. Part 2: Trade 2.1 Catalogues Headnote 2.1 38. W. and S. Jones
[Advertisement:] 'To Philosophical Professors
Lecturers in Philosophy
and Private Students'
in George Adams
Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy
vol. 1
2nd ed. (London: W. and S. Jones
1799)
p. 1. 39. John Joseph Griffin
'Preface'
in Chemical Recreations: A Compendium of Experimental Chemistry
8th edition (Glasgow: Richard Griffin & Co.
1838)
pp. ix-xii. 40. Richard Griffin and Co.
[Advertisement:] 'Griffin's Chemical Museum'
in J. J. Griffin
Chemical Recreations: A Compendium of Experimental Chemistry
9th edition (Glasgow: Richard Griffin & Co.
1847)
p. 566. 41. Negretti and Zambra
'Preface'
in A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments: Explanatory of their Scientific Principles
Method of Construction
and Practical Utility (London: Negretti and Zambra
1864)
pp. v-vi. 42. Negretti and Zambra
front matter and 'Preface'
in Encyclopaedic Illustrated and Descriptive Reference Catalogue of Optical
Mathematical
Philosophical
Photographic
and Standard Meteorological Instruments (London: Negretti and Zambra
[c. 1884])
pp. i-viii. 43. Benjamin Pike
Jr.
'Preface'
in Pike's Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical
Mathematical and Philosophical Instruments
2nd ed. (New York: Benjamin Pike
Jr.
1856)
pp. v-ix. 44. The shopfront of Philip Harris & Co. on Edmund St. in Birmingham
England
along with illustrations of their shop floors for woodworking (top) and metalworking (bottom)
from their Catalogue of Physical and Practical Physics Apparatus
&c. (Birmingham
1899). 2.2 Anatomy Headnote 2.2 45. George Knox (trans.)
Description of an Artificial Anatomical Figure
Constructed by the Chevalier Auzoux
M.D.
Exhibited in 1832 before the King
in London (Madras: Church Mission Press
1834). 46. George Dexter
'Preface'
in Catalogue of Anatomical Models Made by Dr. Auzoux
Professor of Anatomy and Physiology
Paris
and for Sale by George Dexter (Albany
NY: Stone and Henly
1844)
p. 1. 47. Human anatomical model with demountable parts
by Auzoux
c. 1880. Image (c) Whipple Museum of the History of Science
University of Cambridge (Wh.6361). 2.3 Microscopy Headnote 2.3 48. Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
'Estimate of the relative value of the microscopes of Chevalier
Ploessel
and Schiek'
The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
13 (1832)
pp. 327-28. 49. James Glaisher
'Microscopes'
subsection of 'Class X: Philosophical Instruments and Processes Depending Upon their Use'
in Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations
1851: Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided (London: William Clowes & Son
1852)
pp. 265-69. 50. J. J. Plummer
'A few words on the choice of a microscope'
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science
4 (new series) (1864)
pp. 153-158. 51. Henri Van Heurck
The Microscope: Its Construction and Management. Including Technique
Photo-Micrography
and the Past and Future of the Microscope
trans. Wynne
E. Baxter (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son; New York: D. Van Nostrand
1893)
pp. 138-145. 2.4 Anthropometry Headnote 2.4 52. Francis Galton
'Outfit for an Anthropometric Laboratory' (privately-circulated pamphlet
March 1883). 53. Francis Galton
'On the Anthropometric Laboratory at the Late International Health Exhibition'
Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
14 (1885)
[extract:] pp. 205-207
213-218. 54. Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company
A Descriptive List of Anthropometric Apparatus
Consisting of Instruments for Measuring and Testing the Chief Physical Apparatus of the Human Body. Designed Under the Direction of Francis Galton (Cambridge: Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company
1887). 55. [Anon.]
'A Morning with the Anthropometric Detectives: An Interview with Francis Galton
FRS'
Pall Mall Gazette
16 Nov. 1888
pp. 1-2. Part 3: Display 3.1 The Great Exhibition Headnote 3.1 56. Robert Ellis
'Introduction'
to Section II
Class 10: Philosophical
Musical
Horological
And Surgical Instruments
in Great Exhibition of the Works of All Nations: Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue (London: Spicer Bros.
1851)
pp. 404-5. 57. James Glaisher
introduction and conclusion to his report on: 'Class X: Philosophical Instruments and Processes Depending Upon their Use'
in Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations
1851: Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided (London: William Clowes & Son
1852)
[extract:] pp. 243-46 and p. 316
58. James Glaisher
'Conclusion'
from his lecture on 'Philosophical Instruments and Processes
as Represented in the Great Exhibition'
in Lectures on the Results of the Exhibition
Delivered Before the Society of Arts
Manufactures
and Commerce
at the Suggestion of H. R. H. Prince Albert
President of the Society (London: David Bogue
1852)
pp. 294-301. 3.2 Museums of science Headnote 3.2 59. Charles Daubeny
'Dream of the New Museum'
in Miscellanies: Being a Collection of Memoirs and Essays on Scientific and Literary Subjects (Oxford: James Parker
1867)
vol. 2
Pt IV
pp. 141-52. 60. [Robert Willis et al.]
'Report to the Syndicate for Museums and Lecture Rooms
University of Cambridge'
31 December 1853
quoted in R. Willis and J.W. Clark
The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge (Cambridge
1886)
vol. 3
pp. 159-65. 61. J. E. Gray
'Botany and Zoology
Including Physiology'
in Report of the 34th Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (London: John Murray
1864)
pp. 75-80. 62. W. Boyd Dawkins
'The Organisation of Natural History Museums'
Nature
16 (1877)
pp. 137-38. 63. W. Stanley Jevons
'The Use and Abuse of Museums'
in Methods of Social Reform and Other Papers (London: MacMillan
1883)
pp. 54-56. 64. W. H. Flower
'Modern Museums'
in Essays on Museums (London: Macmillan
1898)
pp. 30-53. 3.3 Scientific relics Headnote 3.3 65. G. Wilson
'Address as President of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts at its Annual General Meeting
November 23
1857'
Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts
5 (1861)
[extract:]43-62
pp. 52-53. 66. [Anon.]
'Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus'
Illustrated London News
16 Sep. 1876
p. 270. 67. A. H. Lane-Fox [Pitt Rivers]
'Letter to the Editors: The Arrangement of Museums'
Nature
18 April 1878
pp. 484-85. 68. William Spottiswoode
'Section-Physics (including Astronomy)'
in [South Kensington Museum]
Conferences Held in Connection with the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus
1876
Vol. 1: Physics and Mechanics (London: Chapman & Hall
1876)
pp. 1-7. 69. Henri Tresca
'Upon Objects Illustrating the History of Science
and the Means of Ensuring their Conservation'
in [South Kensington Museum]
Conferences Held in Connection with the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus
1876
Vol. 1: Physics and Mechanics (London: Chapman & Hall
1876)
pp. 80-88. 3.4 Expositions and world's fairs Headnote 3.4 70. Henry Adams
'The Dynamo and the Virgin'
in The Education of Henry Adams (Washington
D.C.: [by private circulation]
1907)
pp. 331-40. Index