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Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents

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Electric Power in Victorian Britain Volume I: Electric Power Imagined

Electric Power in Victorian Britain: Volume I: Electric Power Imagined

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Edited By Nathan Kapoor
December 22, 2025

The materials in this volume cover the works of the natural philosophers, mathematicians, engineers, and entertainers for whom electricity became a vessel to say new things about energy and create a new means of generating motive force. The papers, books, and experiments explore the ways in which ...

Electric Power in Victorian Britain Volume II: Electric Power in Practice

Electric Power in Victorian Britain: Volume II: Electric Power in Practice

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Edited By Nathan Kapoor
December 22, 2025

The materials in this volume explore how the transformation of electric power imprinted on the political landscape of Great Britain and the Empire. Outside the lecture halls and laboratories, electric power became a source for inventors, politicians, economists, and the public to explore, define, ...

Electric Power in Victorian Britain Volume III: Electric Power, Politics and Culture

Electric Power in Victorian Britain: Volume III: Electric Power, Politics and Culture

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Edited By Nathan Kapoor
December 22, 2025

This volume of primary sources examines electric power, politics and culture in Victorian Britain. The materials review the formalization of electric power infrastructures or "grids" as they took shape on a local, national, and imperial scale, and explore how citizens, novelists, doctors, ...

Electric Power in Victorian Britain

Electric Power in Victorian Britain

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Nathan Kapoor
December 22, 2025

This four-volume collection of primary sources examines electric power in Victorian Britain. The first volume covers the works of the natural philosophers, mathematicians, engineers, and entertainers for whom electricity became a vessel to say new things about energy and create a new means of ...

Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society Volume I: Weather Forecasting and Nation-State Building

Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society: Volume I: Weather Forecasting and Nation-State Building

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Edited By Aitor Anduaga
November 17, 2025

This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and ...

Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society Volume II: Cyclones, Trade, Navigation and Society

Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society: Volume II: Cyclones, Trade, Navigation and Society

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Edited By Aitor Anduaga
November 17, 2025

This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and ...

Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society Volume III: Meteorology and Religion

Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society: Volume III: Meteorology and Religion

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Edited By Aitor Anduaga
November 17, 2025

This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and ...

Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society Volume IV: Weather, Climate and Empire

Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society: Volume IV: Weather, Climate and Empire

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Aitor Anduaga
November 17, 2025

This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and ...

Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society

Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Aitor Anduaga
November 17, 2025

This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and ...

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain Volume I: Building Philosophical Systems

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain: Volume I: Building Philosophical Systems

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Edited By Charles H. Pence
September 25, 2025

This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. Perhaps the most striking feature of nineteenth-century works on scientific method is the extent to which they were taken up by authors interested in writing large-scale, systemic works...

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain Volume II: Deep Time: Geology and Evolution

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain: Volume II: Deep Time: Geology and Evolution

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Edited By Charles H. Pence
September 25, 2025

This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. Over the course of the nineteenth century, emblematically but not exclusively represented by the work of Charles Darwin, natural science reconfigured the ways in which practitioners ...

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain Volume III: Quantifying Life: Statistical, Social and Human Sciences

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain: Volume III: Quantifying Life: Statistical, Social and Human Sciences

1st Edition

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Edited By Charles H. Pence
September 25, 2025

This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. The nineteenth century played host to the development, for the first time, of statistical and probabilistic methods across the biological, human, and social sciences. A new kind of ...

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