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Book Synopsis The Notorious Sir John Hill by : George Sebastian Rousseau
Download or read book The Notorious Sir John Hill written by George Sebastian Rousseau and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of one of Georgian England's most notorious figures, who thrived on scandal, fracas, and the cultivation of notoriety. Despite this he managed to make contributions to diverse fields, including botany, geology, literature, medicine and the professionalization of science, whose value has stood the test of time. Hill appears here in the company of other illuminati such as Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Christopher Smart, Linnaeus, Haller and the Fellows of the Royal Society.
Book Synopsis A History of Scientific Journals by : Aileen Fyfe
Download or read book A History of Scientific Journals written by Aileen Fyfe and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern scientific research has changed so much since Isaac Newton’s day: it is more professional, collaborative and international, with more complicated equipment and a more diverse community of researchers. Yet the use of scientific journals to report, share and store results is a thread that runs through the history of science from Newton’s day to ours. Scientific journals are now central to academic research and careers. Their editorial and peer-review processes act as a check on new claims and findings, and researchers build their careers on the list of journal articles they have published. The journal that reported Newton’s optical experiments still exists. First published in 1665, and now fully digital, the Philosophical Transactions has carried papers by Charles Darwin, Dorothy Hodgkin and Stephen Hawking. It is now one of eleven journals published by the Royal Society of London. Unrivalled insights from the Royal Society’s comprehensive archives have enabled the authors to investigate more than 350 years of scientific journal publishing. The editorial management, business practices and financial difficulties of the Philosophical Transactions and its sibling Proceedings reveal the meaning and purpose of journals in a changing scientific community. At a time when we are surrounded by calls to reform the academic publishing system, it has never been more urgent that we understand its history.
Book Synopsis Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture by : Emrys D. Jones
Download or read book Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture written by Emrys D. Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an expansive view of celebrity’s intimate dimensions. In the process, it offers a timely reassessment of how notions of private and public were negotiated by writers, readers, actors and audiences in the early to mid-eighteenth century. The essays assembled here explore the lives of a wide range of figures: actors and actresses, but also politicians, churchmen, authors and rogues; some who courted celebrity openly and others who seemed to achieve it almost inadvertently. At a time when the topic of celebrity’s origins is attracting unprecedented scholarly attention, this collection is an important, pioneering resource.
Book Synopsis Annals of the Royal Society Club by : Archibald Geikie
Download or read book Annals of the Royal Society Club written by Archibald Geikie and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1917 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Lewis Theobald, His Contribution to English Scholarship by : Richard Foster Jones
Download or read book Lewis Theobald, His Contribution to English Scholarship written by Richard Foster Jones and published by Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature. This book was released on 1919 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the 18th century British textual editor Lewis Theobold that asserts that the basic principles of critical editing in English were derived from Theobold's adaptation of the method employed by Bentley in the classics.
Book Synopsis Lewis Theobald, His Contribution to English Scholarship with Some Unpublished Letters by : Richard Foster Jones
Download or read book Lewis Theobald, His Contribution to English Scholarship with Some Unpublished Letters written by Richard Foster Jones and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Scientific Journal by : Alex Csiszar
Download or read book The Scientific Journal written by Alex Csiszar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of academic scientists and to the public legitimacy of scientific knowledge. But that was not always the case. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, academies and societies dominated elite study of the natural world. Journals were a relatively marginal feature of this world, and sometimes even an object of outright suspicion. The Scientific Journal tells the story of how that changed. Alex Csiszar takes readers deep into nineteenth-century London and Paris, where savants struggled to reshape scientific life in the light of rapidly changing political mores and the growing importance of the press in public life. The scientific journal did not arise as a natural solution to the problem of communicating scientific discoveries. Rather, as Csiszar shows, its dominance was a hard-won compromise born of political exigencies, shifting epistemic values, intellectual property debates, and the demands of commerce. Many of the tensions and problems that plague scholarly publishing today are rooted in these tangled beginnings. As we seek to make sense of our own moment of intense experimentation in publishing platforms, peer review, and information curation, Csiszar argues powerfully that a better understanding of the journal’s past will be crucial to imagining future forms for the expression and organization of knowledge.
Download or read book Women Healers written by Susan H. Brandt and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her eighteenth-century medical recipe manuscript, the Philadelphia healer Elizabeth Coates Paschall asserted her ingenuity and authority with the bold strokes of her pen. Paschall developed an extensive healing practice, consulted medical texts, and conducted experiments based on personal observations. As British North America’s premier city of medicine and science, Philadelphia offered Paschall a nurturing environment enriched by diverse healing cultures and the Quaker values of gender equality and women’s education. She participated in transatlantic medical and scientific networks with her friend, Benjamin Franklin. Paschall was not unique, however. Women Healers recovers numerous women of European, African, and Native American descent who provided the bulk of health care in the greater Philadelphia area for centuries. Although the history of women practitioners often begins with the 1850 founding of Philadelphia’s Female Medical College, the first women’s medical school in the United States, these students merely continued the legacies of women like Paschall. Remarkably, though, the lives and work of early American female practitioners have gone largely unexplored. While some sources depict these women as amateurs whose influence declined, Susan Brandt documents women’s authoritative medical work that continued well into the nineteenth century. Spanning a century and a half, Women Healers traces the transmission of European women’s medical remedies to the Delaware Valley where they blended with African and Indigenous women’s practices, forming hybrid healing cultures. Drawing on extensive archival research, Brandt demonstrates that women healers were not inflexible traditional practitioners destined to fall victim to the onward march of Enlightenment science, capitalism, and medical professionalization. Instead, women of various classes and ethnicities found new sources of healing authority, engaged in the consumer medical marketplace, and resisted physicians’ attempts to marginalize them. Brandt reveals that women healers participated actively in medical and scientific knowledge production and the transition to market capitalism.
Book Synopsis Social Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century by : Ileana Baird
Download or read book Social Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Ileana Baird and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an attempt to better account for the impressive diversity of positions and relations that characterizes the eighteenth-century world, this collection proposes a new methodological frame, one that is less hierarchical in approach and more focused, instead, on the nature of these interactions, on their Addisonian “usefulness,” declared goals, and (un)intended results. By shifting focus from a cultural-historicist approach to sociability to the rhizomatic nature of eighteenth-century associations, this collection approaches them through new methodological lenses that include social network analysis, assemblage and graph theory, social media and digital humanities scholarship. Imagining the eighteenth-century world as a networked community rather than a competing one reflects a recent interest in novel forms of social interaction facilitated by new social media—from Internet forums to various types of social networking sites—and also signals the increasing involvement of academic communities in digital humanities projects that use new technologies to map out patterns of intellectual exchange. As such, the articles included in this collection demonstrate the benefits of applying interdisciplinary approaches to eighteenth-century sociability, and their role in shedding new light on the way public opinion was formed and ideas disseminated during pre-modern times. The issues addressed by our contributors are of paramount importance for understanding the eighteenth-century culture of sociability. They address, among other things, clubbing practices and social networking strategies (political, cultural, gender-based) in the eighteenth-century world, the role of clubs and other associations in “improving” knowledge and behaviors, conflicting views on publicity, literary and political alliances and their importance for an emerging celebrity culture, the role of cross-national networks in launching pan-European and transatlantic trends, Romantic modes of sociability, as well as the contribution of voluntary associations (clubs, literary salons, communities of readers, etc.) to the formation of the public sphere. This collection demonstrates how relevant social networking strategies were to the context of the eighteenth-century world, and how similar they are to the congeries of new practices shaping the digital public sphere of today.
Book Synopsis The Letters and Papers of Sir John Hill, 1714-1775 by : John Hill
Download or read book The Letters and Papers of Sir John Hill, 1714-1775 written by John Hill and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transactions of the South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies by :
Download or read book Transactions of the South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The South-eastern Naturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum by : British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings
Download or read book Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: pt.1. March 28, 1734 -c. 1750. pt. 2. 1751 - c. 1760 by : British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings
Download or read book Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: pt.1. March 28, 1734 -c. 1750. pt. 2. 1751 - c. 1760 written by British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum by : British Museum
Download or read book Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1751 to C. 1760 written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: pt. I. March 28, 1734 to c. 1750. pt. II. 1751 to c. 1760 by : British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings
Download or read book Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: pt. I. March 28, 1734 to c. 1750. pt. II. 1751 to c. 1760 written by British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
