Edward J. Gillin (University of Cambridge)

The Victorian Palace of Science

Scientific Knowledge and the Building of the Houses of Parliament

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Produktbeschreibung

Edward J. Gillin provides a dramatic account of how the building of the Houses of Parliament involved the use of radically new science and how, while under construction, Parliament became a laboratory and place of scientific experiment. This book will be of value to readers interested in Victorian science, architecture, and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Science in History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9781108419666
• ISBN-10: 1108419666
• Artikelnr.: 48498309

Autorenporträt

Edward J. Gillin completed a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford in 2015 and is now a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in British science, technology, architecture, and politics in the nineteenth century, with his current work focusing on the role of sound in the production of Victorian scientific knowledge. Previous works cover topics such as the Cunard Steamship Company, early-twentieth-century political protest, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Eastern steamship. He received the 2015 Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hawksmoor Medal, and in 2016 was awarded the Usher Prize from the Society for the History of Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. A radical building: the science of politics and the new
Palace of Westminster; 2. Architecture and knowledge: Charles Barry and the
world of mid-nineteenth-century science; 3. 'The Science of Architecture':
making geological knowledge for the Houses of Parliament; 4. Chemistry in
the Commons: Edinburgh science and David Boswell Reid's ventilating of
Parliament, 1834-1854; 5. Enlightening Parliament: the Bude Light in the
House of Commons and the illumination of politics; 6. Order in Parliament:
George Biddell Airy and the construction of time at Westminster;
Conclusion: the house of experiment.