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An Empire Of Magnetism
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Author : Edward J. Gillin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-11-21
An Empire Of Magnetism written by Edward J. Gillin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-21 with History categories.
During the 1840s and 1850s, the British government financed a world-wide investigation into how the Earth's magnetic phenomena operated, consisting of a network of naval expeditions and colonial observatories. Questions surrounding terrestrial magnetism were not just philosophical, but engendered urgent concerns over accurate navigation, on which Britain's commercial and colonial power relied. The British Magnetic Survey was celebrated at the time as the most extensive state-orchestrated scientific enterprise ever conducted. Yet although it was a fundamentally global endeavour, both in terms of its scale and its impact, the experimental instruments and techniques required were to be found amid Britain's booming local industry, where the harnessing of coal and iron, and use of steam power, shaped a scientific culture prominently concerned with the relationship between heat, pressure, and motion. In particular, it was philosophical apparatus fashioned within the mines of Cornwall that the government was able to conscript within this world-wide magnetic investigation. These locally produced experimental techniques and technologies proved capable of transformation into a system for obtaining magnetic measurements from over great expanses of time and space. As An Empire of Magnetism demonstrates, this not only sustained an immense world-wide scientific investigation, but became inseparable from the proliferation of empire, sustaining colonial expansion and unprecedented multi-cultural exchanges as British naval crews and natural philosophers surveyed previously unknown regions in the search for magnetic data. In so doing, Edward Gillin argues that the British Magnetic Survey had broader implications over the formation of the 'modern state', the expansion of nineteenth-century empire, and the development of global science.
An Empire Of Magnetism
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Author : Edward J. Gillin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-21
An Empire Of Magnetism written by Edward J. Gillin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-21 with History categories.
This book offers an in-depth, global history of the British Magnetic Survey - the nineteenth-century, British-government-funded efforts to measure and understand the earth's magnetic field. These scientific efforts are situated within the context of the development of 'global science' and the ways they intersected with empire and colonialism.
Fatal Attraction
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Author : Patricia Fara
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books Company
Release Date : 2005
Fatal Attraction written by Patricia Fara and has been published by Icon Books Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
At the end of the 17th century, magnetism was a dark, mysterious force, known about since ancient Greece but still poorly understood. Tales abounded of magnets' ability to attract reluctant lovers, and magnetic expertise lay in the hands of seafarers, who had long used compasses to guide their ships. This book tells the stories of three men who were lured by nature's strangest power. Edmond Halley set out to map the Earth's magnetic patterns and improve navigation, showing how science could help England to expand her empire. Gowin Knight, a poor clergyman's son, climbed to fame and fortune by developing powerful artificial magnets used in compasses, scientific experiments and popular magic tricks. And although Franz Mesmer claimed that his 'animal magnetism', based on harnessing invisible streams of magnetic fluid, was the revolutionary medicine of the future, he was ultimately denounced as a quack. The move from magnetic mysticism to celebrating scientific rationality is a microcosm of the Enlightenment itself. In this book the author portrays the colourful protagonists of the magnetic revolution in this tumultuous and turbulent age.
Engineering Empires
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Author : B. Marsden
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-12-07
Engineering Empires written by B. Marsden and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-07 with Science categories.
Engineers are empire-builders. Watt, Brunel, and others worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology and in so doing these engineers also became active agents of political and economic empire. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.
The Annals Of Electricity Magnetism And Chemistry And Guardian Of Experimental Science
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1839
The Annals Of Electricity Magnetism And Chemistry And Guardian Of Experimental Science written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1839 with categories.
History Of The Inductive Sciences Xi Electricity Xii Magnetism Xiii Galvanism Or Voltaic Electricity Xiv Chemistry Xv Mineralogy Xvi Systematic Botany And Zoology Xvii Physiology And Comparative Anatomy Xviii Geology
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Author : William Whewell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1847
History Of The Inductive Sciences Xi Electricity Xii Magnetism Xiii Galvanism Or Voltaic Electricity Xiv Chemistry Xv Mineralogy Xvi Systematic Botany And Zoology Xvii Physiology And Comparative Anatomy Xviii Geology written by William Whewell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1847 with Natural theology categories.
Annals Of Electricity Magnetism And Chemistry
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1840
Annals Of Electricity Magnetism And Chemistry written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1840 with Chemistry categories.
Researches Of The Department Of Terrestrial Magnetism
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Author : Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
Researches Of The Department Of Terrestrial Magnetism written by Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with categories.
Sound Authorities
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Author : Edward J. Gillin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-02-11
Sound Authorities written by Edward J. Gillin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-11 with History categories.
"In Sound Authorities, Edward J. Gillin shows how experiences of music and sound played a crucial role in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry in Britain. Where other studies have focused on vision in Victorian England, Gillin focuses on hearing and aurality, making the claim that the development of the natural sciences in Britain in this era cannot be understood without attending to how the study of sound and music contributed to the fashioning of new scientific knowledge. Gillin's book is about how scientific practitioners attempted to fashion themselves as authorities on sonorous phenomena, coming into conflict with traditional musical elites as well as religious bodies. Gillin pays attention to not only musical sound but also the phenomenon of sound in non-musical contexts, specifically, the cacophony of British industrialization, and he analyzes the debates between figures from disparate fields over the proper account of musical experience. Gillin's story begins with the place of acoustics in early nineteenth-century London, examining scientific exhibitions, lectures, and spectacles, as well as workshops, laboratories, and showrooms. He goes on to explore how mathematicians mobilized sound in their understanding of natural laws and their vision of a harmonious order, as well as the convergence of aesthetic and scientific approaches to pitch standardization. In closing, Gillin delves into the era's religious and metaphysical debates over the place of music (and humanity) in nature, the relationship between music and the divine, and the tension between religious/spiritualist understandings of sound and scientific/materialist ones"--
Researches Of The Department Of Terrestrial Magnetism
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Author : Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
Researches Of The Department Of Terrestrial Magnetism written by Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with Geomagnetism categories.