Jack Morrell

Routledge Revivals: John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science (2005) (eBook, ePUB)

The Fiction of the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2005, this book represents the first full length biography of John Phillips, one of the most important scientists of the Victorian period. Adopting a broad chronological approach, this book not only traces the development of Phillips' career but highlights his role within Victorian culture, shedding light on many wider themes. It explores how Phillips' love of science was inseparable from his need to earn a living and develop a career which could sustain him. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources and a rich body of recent writings, this biography brings together his personal story with the scientific developments of the day, and puts them in the context of wider society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 457
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315445069
• Artikelnr.: 46897385

Autorenporträt

Jack Morrell

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations, Conventions, and a Note on
Monetary Values; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I: The
Scientific Apprentice 1800-1834; 1. The Apprentice Mineral Surveyor 1.1 The
education of an orphan 1.2 Cabinet assistant to Smith 1.3 Surveying with
Smith 1.4 Wandering with Smith 2. The Young Lecturer and Keeper 2.1 The
Yorkshire Philosophical Society 2.2 The geological lectures of Smith and
Phillips 2.3 Curating in York 2.4 Performing: home and away 2.5 Harcourt as
Patron 2.6 The Coastal geologist 3. The Spreading Reputation 1829-1833 3.1
The York savant 3.2 Geological raids on the Continent 3.3 Vindicating
William Smith 3.4 London overtures 3.5 The early British Association 3.6
The Royal Dublin Society; Part II: Making a Career 1834-1853; 4. The
Provincial Base 4.1 YPS keeper 4.2 The mountain limestone monograph 4.3
Carboniferous expert 4.4 The philosophical carnival 4.5 The burden of
lecturing 5. The Professor and Popular Writer 5.1 King's College, London
5.2 The popularisation of geology 5.3 Lyell's principles of geology 5.4
Phillips' principles of geology 5.5 Genesis and geology 6 The Geological
Survey 1836-1841 6.1 The survey under attack 6.2 The unpaid helper 6.3 The
Survey employee 6.4 Palaeozoic fossils 6.5 Palaeozoic converts 7. The
Geographical Survey 1841-1849 7.1 Maps, sections, and obsessions 7.2
Halcyon years 7.3 Surveying and pupils 7.4 Sparring with Murchison 7.5
Cabinet palaeontologist 7.6 Irish stews 7.7 Anti-climax 8. Manifold
Scientist 8.1 Local commitments 8.2 Metropolitan involvements 8.3 The BAAS
factotum 8.4 The BAAS polymath 8.5 Civil scientist 8.6 Popularising science
8.7 A Pension scandal; Part III: The Oxford Professor 1853-1874; 9. The
Oxford Chair 9.1 The Oxford appointment 9.1 Oxford in 1853 9.2 Début in
Oxford 9.4 Geological lecturing 9.5 Geological pupils 9.6 The geological
collection 9.7 Schools and extra-mural lecturing 10. Professorial Research
10.1 Cleavage and belemnites 10.2 Glaciation 10.3 Vesuvius and earthquakes
10.4 Topographical geology 10.5 Consultancy 10.6 Archaeology and astronomy
10.7 Magnetism and metrology 11. Keepering 11.1 The Ashmolean Museum 11.2
Keeper in waiting 11.3 Ruskinesque decorator 11.4 Keeper 1857-1860 11.5 The
Museum's meanings 11.6 Collections 11.7 Unifier of the Museum 1861-1874 12.
Voluntary Commitments 12.1 Local scientific societies 12.2 The British
Association 12.3 The Geological Society 12.4 The Royal Society 13.
Evolution, the Earth, Man, and God 13.1 Vestiges of creation 13.2 The
origin of species 13.3 Life on the earth 13.4 Genesis and geology revisited
13.5 The age of man 13.6 Last testimonies 13.7 Irenic Christianity;
Conclusion; Appendix 1: Lecture courses given by Phillips to YPS; Appendix
2: Lecture courses given by Phillips outside York; Bibliography; Index