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Treatments for bubonic plague: reports from seventeenth century British epidemics
Posted on March 12, 2012 | No CommentsThus, when the last plague struck, new views of scientific knowledge were taking hold; Galileo had been active twenty-five years earlier and Copernicus a century before that. Anne Van Arsdall has written, `The scientific revolution that began in the sixteenth century and drastically altered human understanding of nature and the universe affected medicine as well’. -
Scientific Culture and the Origins of the First Industrial Revolution
Posted on March 8, 2012 | No CommentsThe article addresses the role of scientific culture in the first Industrial Revolution and is based upon research undertaken in Britain, France and The Low Countries. -
British attitudes to the Negro, 1850-1870
Posted on January 12, 2012 | No CommentsThe subjects of this thesis are white not black. Victorian attitudes to race were as much a product of developments in the white world of England as a result of encounters with the black man in the Empire. -
Young-Earth Creationists in Early Nineteenth-century Britain? Towards a reassessment of ‘Scriptural Geology’
Posted on December 29, 2011 | No CommentsThe interventions of biblical literalists in early nineteenth-century geology have been briefly highlighted by Brooke and Cantor as important symptoms of a cultural watershed in need of closer attention. -
Isaac Newton’s writings go online
Posted on December 19, 2011 | No CommentsIsaac Newton’s own annotated copy of his Principia Mathematica is among his notebooks and manuscripts being made available online by Cambridge University Library. -
60,000 articles made freely available by the Royal Society
Posted on October 30, 2011 | No CommentsTreasures in the archive include Isaac Newton’s first published scientific paper, geological work by a young Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated account of his electrical kite experiment -
The bio-medical pursuits of Christopher Wren
Posted on October 16, 2011 | No CommentsI suppose that anyone who reads the English language sooner or later crosses the path of Christopher Wren. A meteorologist, an astronomer... -
Margaret Cavendish’s Imaginary Friends
Posted on October 15, 2011 | No CommentsMargaret Cavendish’s Imaginary Friends Rachel Warburton – Lakehead University Session: “English Epistolary Friendships” Paper given at the conference: Friendship In Pre-Modern Europe (1300-1700) This paper analysed Margaret Cavendish’s sociable letters. They... -
Early Modern Space Travel and the English Man in the Moon
Posted on October 14, 2011 | No CommentsEarly Modern Space Travel and the English Man in the Moon Cressy, David The American Historical Review, Vol. III, No. 4, October (2006) Abstract The moon, for early modern Englishmen... -
Political Bodies and Animal Economies: Reconsidering the Relationship between Healthcare and Statecraft in Late Seventeenth-Century England
Posted on October 7, 2011 | No CommentsPolitical Bodies and Animal Economies: Reconsidering theRelationship between Healthcare and Statecraft in Late Seventeenth-Century England Ridge, Steve (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London) Ex... -
Scholar examines alchemy mystery from 16th-century England
Posted on September 21, 2011 | No CommentsIt involves a printer, the far-reaching power of a monarch, possible censorship, three English alchemists dedicated to uncovering the secret of transmutation and a whole lot of unanswered questions. Earlier... -
Private papers reveal ‘Who’s Who of British Science’
Posted on December 29, 2009 | No CommentsOne of the most important archives of nineteenth-century science – stored in obscurity for over 100 years – has been reunited and acquired by the John Rylands University Library at...