Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
About the Book Series
Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945 focuses on the social, cultural, industrial and economic contexts of science and technology from the ‘scientific revolution’ up to the Second World War. Publishing lively, original, innovative research across a broad spectrum of subjects and genres by an international list of authors, the series has a global compass that concerns the development of modern science in all regions of the world. Subjects may range from close studies of particular sciences and problems to cultural and social histories of science, technology and biomedicine; accounts of scientific travel and exploration; transnational histories of scientific and technological change; monographs examining instruments, their makers and users; the material and visual cultures of science; contextual studies of institutions and of individual scientists, engineers and popularizers of science; and well-edited volumes of essays on themes in the field.
Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics: Science, Art and Technology in the Early Soviet Union
1st Edition
By Margarete Vöhringer
January 30, 2025
Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics presents an innovative look at the Russian avant-garde and its cultural encounters with the sciences in the 1920s. The book examines some of the lesser known entanglements between architects, filmmakers and philosophers, on the one hand, and experimental psychologists...
The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth: Ideas and Expeditions in Four Centuries of Geodesy
1st Edition
By Michael Rand Hoare
January 29, 2024
In the 1730s two expeditions set out from Paris on extraordinary journeys; the first was destined for the equatorial region of Peru, the second headed north towards the Arctic Circle. Although the eighteenth century witnessed numerous such adventures, these expeditions were different. Rather than ...
The Enlightenment of Thomas Beddoes: Science, medicine, and reform
1st Edition
By Trevor Levere, Larry Stewart, Hugh Torrens, Joseph Wachelder
June 28, 2018
Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) lived in ‘decidedly interesting times’ in which established orders in politics and science were challenged by revolutionary new ideas. Enthusiastically participating in the heady atmosphere of Enlightenment debate, Beddoes' career suffered from his radical views on ...
Barcelona: An Urban History of Science and Modernity, 1888–1929
1st Edition
By Oliver Hochadel, Agustí Nieto-Galan
October 23, 2017
The four decades between the two Universal Exhibitions of 1888 and 1929 were formative in the creation of modern Barcelona. Architecture and art blossomed in the work of Antoni Gaudi and many others. At the same time, social unrest tore the city apart. Topics such as art nouveau and anarchism ...
Pursuing the Unity of Science: Ideology and Scientific Practice from the Great War to the Cold War
1st Edition
Edited
By Harmke Kamminga, Geert Somsen
October 13, 2017
From 1918 to the late 1940s, a host of influential scientists and intellectuals in Europe and North America were engaged in a number of far-reaching unity of science projects. In this period of deep social and political divisions, scientists collaborated to unify sciences across disciplinary ...
John Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire
1st Edition
By Steven Ruskin
September 14, 2017
In 1833 John Herschel sailed from London to Cape Town, southern Africa, to undertake (at his own expense) an astronomical exploration of the southern heavens, as well as a terrestrial exploration of the area around Cape Town. After his return to England in 1838, and as a result of his voyage, he ...
Entrepreneurial Ventures in Chemistry: The Muspratts of Liverpool, 1793-1934
1st Edition
By Peter Reed
June 14, 2017
The Muspratt family form a fascinating dynasty in the history of British commerce and manufacturing. Associated principally with the development of the chemical industry in Liverpool - James Muspratt (1793-1884) was the first person to make alkali on a large scale using the Leblanc Process - the ...
Sir James Dewar, 1842–1923: A Ruthless Chemist
1st Edition
By J.S. Rowlinson
May 25, 2017
Sir James Dewar was a major figure in British chemistry for around 40 years. He held the posts of Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge (1875-1923) and Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution (1877-1923) and is remembered principally for his efforts to liquefy ...
Chemical Structure, Spatial Arrangement: The Early History of Stereochemistry, 1874–1914
1st Edition
By Peter J. Ramberg
March 06, 2017
Offering a comprehensive narrative of the early history of stereochemistry, Dr Ramberg explores the reasons for and the consequences of the fundamental change in the meaning of chemical formulas with the emergence of stereochemistry during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. As yet ...
Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century 'Water Controversy'
1st Edition
By David Philip Miller
March 06, 2017
The 'water controversy' concerns one of the central discoveries of modern science, that water is not an element but rather a compound. The allocation of priority in this discovery was contentious in the 1780s and has occupied a number of 20th century historians. The matter is tied up with the ...
Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism
1st Edition
By John van Wyhe
March 06, 2017
Through a reassessment of phrenology, Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism sheds light on all kinds of works in Victorian Britain and America which have previously been unnoticed or were simply referred to with a vague 'naturalism of the times' explanation. It is often ...
Science and Beliefs: From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, 1700–1900
1st Edition
Edited
By David M. Knight, Matthew D. Eddy
March 06, 2017
The years between 1700 and 1900 witnessed a fundamental transition in attitudes towards science, as earlier concepts of natural philosophy were replaced with a more modern conception of science. This process was by no means a simple progression, and the changing attitudes to science was marked by ...