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Author : Maxwell Craven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019496434
Author : John Whitehurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1778
Category : Earth
ISBN : STANFORD:36105116264941
Author : Maxwell Craven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1781552657
John Whitehurst was one of a select number of men of science living and working in the eighteenth century whose minds were as remarkable for their breadth as their talents were for their diversity. Although remembered today mainly as a notable clockmaker from Derby the town in which he lived and worked for over forty years Whitehurst was also an instrument maker, mechanical engineer, hydraulicist, home improver, meteorologist, the father of modern geology and he had a hand in the development of the steam engine.
Author : Edward J. Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Clocks and watches
ISBN : WISC:89092544162
Author : Jonathan H Powers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000964110
First Published in 1982 Philosophy and the New Physics is a compact and yet remarkably rich excursion through the history of physics from Newtonian mechanics to quantum physics. The theory of relativity, quantum mechanics and ideas about the ‘fundamental constituents’ of matter have attracted a great deal of philosophical comment. Indeed, the originators of some of these theories thought they were solving philosophical problems as well as scientific ones. Classical physics is often portrayed as epitomizing ‘mechanistic materialism’, and the revolution in modern physics is variously claimed to vindicate ‘logical positivism’, ‘operationalism’, ‘organicism’, ‘dialectical materialism’ and ‘Buddhist metaphysics’. In this book Jonathan Powers criticizes all of these claims and argues that such varied and conflicting interpretations are possible because of ineradicable elements of conventionality in scientific theories. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of philosophy of science and philosophy in general.
Author : Robert Head
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Cheshire
ISBN : UCD:31175035174757
Author : Jenny Uglow
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 1117 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780571266678
Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toy-maker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor and theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles Darwin). Later came Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen and fighting radical. Led by Erasmus Darwin they joined a small band of allies, formed the Lunar Society of Birmingham (so called because it met at each full moon) and kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Blending science, art, and commerce, the Lunar Men built canals, launched balloons, named plants, gases and minerals, changed the face of England and the china in its drawing rooms, and plotted to revolutionise its soul. Jenny Uglow's The Lunar Men is a vivid and swarming group portrait that brings to life the friendships, political passions, love affairs, and love of knowledge (and power) that drove these extraordinary men. It echoes the thud of pistons and the wheeze and snort of engines, and brings to life the tradesmen, artisans, and tycoons who shaped and fired the modern age. Winner of the PEN Hessel-Tiltman prize for history, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, The Lunar Men captures the creation of the modern world with lucid intelligence, sympathy and wisdom. Jenny Uglow is also the prize-winning author of Nature's Engraver, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories and most recently, In These Times.
Author : Royal Society (Great Britain),Charles Hutton,Richard Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1809
Category : Philosophical transaction (Royal Society (Great Britain))
ISBN : HARVARD:HXKC15
Author : Denis Cosgrove,Stephen Daniels
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521389151
This book, first published in 1988, draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines to explicate the status of landscape as a cultural image.
Author : David Fearnehough
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781445627809
An entertaining, informative and easily accessible record of over 600 extremes in Derbyshire.
Author : Paul A. Elliot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857718969
Scientific culture was one of the defining characteristics of the English Enlightenment. The latest discoveries were debated in homes, institutions and towns around the country. But how did the dissemination of scientific knowledge vary with geographical location? What were the differing influences in town and country and from region to region? Enlightenment, Modernity and Science provides the first full length study of the geographies of Georgian scientific culture in England. The author takes the reader on a tour of the principal arenas in which scientific ideas were disseminated, including home, town and countryside, to show how cultures of science and knowledge varied across the Georgian landscape. Taking in key figures such as Erasmus Darwin, Abraham Bennett, and Joseph Priestley along the way, it is a work that sheds important light on the complex geographies of Georgian English scientific culture.
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300134483
In the four months following the January 20, 1783, armistice that ended the War for American Independence, Franklin was remarkably energetic as he helped oversee the transition to peace and waged a multifaceted campaign to publicize the ideals of the new nation. Though political turmoil in Britain delayed negotiations for the definitive peace treaty, Franklin deftly negotiated America's first commercial treaty with a neutral nation, Sweden, which was signed in secret. He distributed his richly symbolic Libertas Americana medal, worked toward the publication of his French edition of the American state constitutions, and fielded scores of letters from people all over Europe who sought to emigrate, to establish trade connections with the United States, to become consuls, and to offer congratulations and advice.
Author : Edward J. WOOD (of Clerkenwell.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026649972
Author : Christopher Upham Murray Smith,Robert Arnott
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0754636712
The Genius of Erasmus Darwin provides insight into the full extent of Erasmus Darwin's exceptional intellect. He is shown to be a major creative thinker and innovator, one of the minds behind the late eighteenth-century industrial revolution, and one of the first, if not the first, to perceive the living world (including humans) as part of a unified evolutionary scenario. The contributions here provide contextual understandings of Erasmus Darwin's thought, as well as studies of particular works and accounts of the later reception of his writings. In this way it is possible to see why the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge was moved to describe Darwin as 'the first literary character in Europe, and the most original-minded man'.Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin's grandfather, was one of the leading intellectuals of eighteenth-century England. He was a man with an extraordinary range of interests and activities: he was a doctor, biologist, inventor, poet, linguist and botanist. He was also a founding member of the Lunar Society, an intellectual community that included such eminent men as James Watt and Josiah Wedgwood.
Author : Anon.
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781447482109
Clocks of different types have existed for hundreds of years, these is an exciting and interesting look into the very finest timepieces. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
