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Author : John Theophilus Desaguliers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1726
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N11698355
Author : John Theophilus Desaguliers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1726
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:518659114
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Science
ISBN : PRNC:32101065272310
Author : David Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:1000163074
Author : David Murray
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385361492
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : Al Coppola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190269722
The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteenth century in Britain, The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science by analyzing how eighteenth-century science was "staged" in a double sense. On the one hand, this study analyzes science in performance: the way that science and scientists were made a public spectacle in comedies, farces, and pantomimes for purposes that could range from the satiric to the pedagogic to the hagiographic. But this book also considers the way in which these plays laid bare science as performance: that is, the way that eighteenth-century science was itself a kind of performing art, subject to regimes of stagecraft that traversed the laboratory, the lecture hall, the anatomy theater, and the public stage. Not only did the representation of natural philosophy in eighteenth-century plays like Thomas Shadwell's Virtuoso, Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon, Susanna Centlivre's The Basset Table, and John Rich's Necromancer, or Harelequin Doctor Faustus, influence contemporary debates over the role that experimental science was to play public life, the theater shaped the very form that science itself was to take. By disciplining, and ultimately helping to legitimate, experimental philosophy, the eighteenth-century stage helped to naturalize an epistemology based on self-evident, decontextualized facts that might speak for themselves. In this, the stage and the lab jointly fostered an Enlightenment culture of spectacle that transformed the conditions necessary for the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge. Precisely because Enlightenment public science initiatives, taking their cue from the public stages, came to embrace the stagecraft and spectacle that Restoration natural philosophy sought to repress from the scene of experimental knowledge production, eighteenth-century science organized itself around not the sober, masculine "modest witness" of experiment but the sentimental, feminized, eager observer of scientific performance.
Author : Audrey T. Carpenter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826431486
This is the first comprehensive biography of a major, but neglected, figure of his age. John Theophilus Desaguliers made his mark on the eighteenth century in several diverse ways. He was an assistant to Sir Isaac Newton and later elucidated the difficult concepts of Newtonian physics in private lectures. He was a member of the Royal Society, and was presented with the Society's highest honour, the Copley Medal, no less than three times. He was a pioneering engineer: the water supply of Edinburgh, the ventilation of the Houses of Parliament and the first Westminster Bridge all owed him a debt. In a different sphere, Desaguliers became the third Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the Freemasons which was founded in 1717. He is remembered worldwide for his seminal influence during those early days of Freemasonry. He also wrote poetry and had an influential circle of patrons, including George I and Frederick, Prince of Wales (whom he initiated as a Mason at a specially convened lodge at Kew). This biography, based on original research, describes a charismatic character who was a major figure of his age.
Author : THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ., M.A., F.S.A.,
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Thomas II Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z184810208
Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Caricature
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5KCV
Author : John Timbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : London (England)
ISBN : UCAL:$B263252
Author : thomas thorpe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555063052
Author : Geoff Marshall
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780752492391
Did you know that apart from Lancashire, the greatest concentration of Boulton & Watt steam engines was in London, demonstrating the enormous and often overlooked significance of London as an industrial centre? The story behind the many industries found in the capital is described in this unique book. London once had scores of breweries; the world’s first plastic material was synthesised in the East End; there was even a gasworks opposite the Palace of Westminster. Clerkenwell was a centre for watch and clock makers; the River Thames used to be full of colliers bringing coal from Newcastle; Joseph Bramah invented his water closet and hydraulic pump here, and Henry Maudslay made machines to make machines. Many household names began in London: Schweppes, Crosse & Blackwell, and Vauxhall motor cars. The list of fascinating facts goes on. In this, the first book of its kind on the subject, Geoff Marshall provides an enthralling overview of London’s industrial face through history.
Author : Dorothy Brewster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101068140423
Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN : WISC:89100229889