Author: Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The (Kirby's) Wonderful and scientific (eccentric) museum
Author: Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Kirby's Wonderful and Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters. Including All the Curiosities of Nature and Art, from the Remotest Period to the Present Time, Drawn from Every Authentic Source. Illustrated with One Hundred and Twenty-four Engravings. Chiefly Taken from Rare and Curious Prints Or Original Drawings
Author: R. S. KirbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Kirby's Wonderful and Scientific Museum
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Science and Eccentricity
Author: Victoria CarrollPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317314476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the 19th century understood their world. This book explores how, from the turn of the century, discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order.
Kirby's Wonderful and Scientific Museum
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Kirby's Wonderful and Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters. Including All the Curiosities of Nature and Art, from the Remotest Peri
Author: Kirby R SPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781313318112
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Index and Finding List of Serials Published in the British Isles, 1789–1832
Author: William S. WardPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813164877
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Growth of interest in the periodical literature of the past has emphasized increasingly the need for specialized hand lists, a need which the American Union List of Serials, the British Union Catalogue of the Periodical Publications in the University Libraries of the British Isles, and other existing indexes cannot answer. To satisfy one area of this need, William S. Ward has compiled a near-definitive index and finding list of periodicals and newspapers of the English Romantic period. In it are reflected the holdings of almost eleven hundred American, Canadian, and British libraries and newspaper offices. The volume is also the first to list titles and library locations of all the newspapers, magazines, and other serials published in the British Isles during the years between the French Revolution and the Great Reform Bill.
The Personality of Henry Cavendish - A Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities
Author: Russell McCormmachPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3319024388
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Profiles the eminent 18th century natural philosopher Henry Cavendish, best known for his work in chemistry and physics and one of the most baffling personalities in the history of science. In these chapters we are introduced to the psychology of science and of scientists and we learn about Cavendish’s life and times. His personality is examined from two perspectives: one is that he had a less severe form of autism, as has been claimed; the other is that he was eccentric and a psychological disorder was absent. Henry Cavendish lived a life of science, possibly more completely than any other figure in the history of science: a wealthy aristocrat, he became a dedicated scientist. This study brings new information and a new perspective to our understanding of the man. The scientific and non-scientific sides of his life are brought closer together, as the author traces topics including his appearance, speech, wealth, religion and death as well as Cavendish’s life of natural philosophy where objectivity and accuracy, writing and recognition all played a part. The author traces aspects of Cavendish’s personality, views and interpretations of him, and explores notions of eccentricity and autism before detailing relevant aspects of the travels made by our subject. The author considers the question “How do we talk about Cavendish?” and provides a useful summary of Cavendish’s travels. This book will appeal to a wide audience, from those interested in 18th century history or history of science, to those interested in incidences of autism in prominent figures from history. This volume contains ample relevant illustrations, several interesting appendices and it includes a useful index and bibliography.
The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability
Author: Emily B. StanbackPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137511400
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This book argues for the importance of disability to authors of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle. By examining texts in a variety of genres — ranging from self-experimental medical texts to lyric poetry to metaphysical essays — Stanback demonstrates the extent to which non-normative embodiment was central to Romantic-era thought and Romantic-era aesthetics. The book reassesses well-known literary and medical works by such authors as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Humphry Davy, argues for the importance of lesser-studied work by authors including Charles Lamb and Thomas Beddoes, and introduces significant unpublished work by Tom Wedgwood.