Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents
Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume I: Human Nature
1st Edition
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By Tim Fulford
October 30, 2026
This volume features some of the most controversial and topical science writing of the period. Investigations of the human body led to vexed debates about the nature and origins of life – materialism vs. spiritualism. Anatomical studies demonstrated humans’ likeness to other mammals; these, ...
Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume II: The Natural World
1st Edition
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By Tim Fulford
October 30, 2026
This was the heroic period of plant collection: Europeans now had the means to collect and study flora and fauna from all over the world; they also developed classificatory systems that allowed them to create universal schema for plant reproduction and animal organization. This was also the period...
Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume III: Forces
1st Edition
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By Tim Fulford
October 30, 2026
These areas of enquiry were related in the period: the chemical changes produced by heat were the subject of intense investigation in an effort to provide a comprehensive account of why and how substances combined. Priestley’s isolation of gases was made under the aegis of a phlogiston theory; this...
Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume IV: Science in Society
1st Edition
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By Tim Fulford
October 30, 2026
This volume draws together texts revealing the increased and varied roles that science played in society at large, beyond the laboratory, the learned society and the scientific journal. Women's science writing, sampled here, was often professedly designed to educate a lay - usually female - ...
Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837
1st Edition
By Tim Fulford
October 30, 2026
In 1802 Humphry Davy hailed a new era in which science was empowering mankind as never before: ‘it has’, he said, ‘bestowed upon him powers which may be almost called creative; which have enabled him to modify and change the beings surrounding him, and by his experiments to interrogate nature with ...
Convalescence and Invalidism in Victorian Britain: Volume I: Convalescence and the Modern World
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By Hosanna Krienke
October 13, 2026
Across the nineteenth century, what counted as a beneficial medical intervention narrowed considerably. Diagnostic acts like listening to a patient’s heartbeat or performing a physical examination became the norm for medical doctors, while physical acts of care—such as feeding a patient or ...
Convalescence and Invalidism in Victorian Britain: Volume II: The Opportunities of Invalidism
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By Hosanna Krienke
October 13, 2026
While convalescence connoted a temporary experience of recuperation after a serious illness, invalidism was pictured as an ongoing—and perhaps endless—experience of ill-health. Invalids, then, were those whose conditions appeared to derive no benefit from scientific medicine’s interventions. Yet ...
Convalescence and Invalidism in Victorian Britain
1st Edition
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By Hosanna Krienke
October 13, 2026
An asset to researchers and students alike this two volume set contextualizes the drastically changing environment of nineteenth-century medicine not merely from the perspectives of famed medical experts, but also those of patients, nurses, caregivers, journalists, and social reformers. Students in...
British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century: Volume I: Foundational Texts
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By Kathleen L. Sheppard
September 07, 2026
Throughout the professionalization of Egyptology in the nineteenth century, there were several debates that raged: the purpose of the pyramids, and who built them; the meaning of hieroglyphs; the styling of statues and artwork on tomb and temple walls; and the history of ancient Egypt, especially ...
British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century: Volume II: Travel Writing
1st Edition
By Kathleen L. Sheppard
September 07, 2026
While there had technically been people studying the ancient Egyptian world since around 400 BCE, the first Western scholars arrived in Egypt the medieval period. It was in 1798 though that the French under Napoleon invaded Egypt not only with an army of soldiers but with an army of scholars, which...
British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century: Volume III: Museums
1st Edition
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By Kathleen L. Sheppard
September 07, 2026
The earliest collections of Egyptian artifacts were those pieces taken by the Roman empire. There are more Egyptian obelisks in Rome today than there are left in Egypt. In the nineteenth century, British collections were built by the same people whose work comprises volume two. They began as ...
British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
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By Kathleen L. Sheppard
September 07, 2026
Egyptology saw its birth as a science during the latter part of the nineteenth century, even though Westerners had been traveling there for millennia. These volumes will present several foundational texts of the discipline in this crucial century, showing throughout each volume the slow, and not ...