Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents
Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume I: Human Nature
1st Edition
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By Tim Fulford
October 21, 2026
This volume features some of the most controversial and topical science writing of the period. Investigations of the human body led to vexed debates about the nature and origins of life – materialism vs. spiritualism. Anatomical studies demonstrated humans’ likeness to other mammals; these, ...
Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume II: The Natural World
1st Edition
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By Tim Fulford
October 21, 2026
This was the heroic period of plant collection: Europeans now had the means to collect and study flora and fauna from all over the world; they also developed classificatory systems that allowed them to create universal schema for plant reproduction and animal organization. This was also the period...
Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume III: Forces
1st Edition
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By Tim Fulford
October 21, 2026
These areas of enquiry were related in the period: the chemical changes produced by heat were the subject of intense investigation in an effort to provide a comprehensive account of why and how substances combined. Priestley’s isolation of gases was made under the aegis of a phlogiston theory; this...
Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume IV: Science in Society
1st Edition
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By Tim Fulford
October 21, 2026
This volume draws together texts revealing the increased and varied roles that science played in society at large, beyond the laboratory, the learned society and the scientific journal. Women's science writing, sampled here, was often professedly designed to educate a lay - usually female - ...
Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837
1st Edition
By Tim Fulford
October 21, 2026
In 1802 Humphry Davy hailed a new era in which science was empowering mankind as never before: ‘it has’, he said, ‘bestowed upon him powers which may be almost called creative; which have enabled him to modify and change the beings surrounding him, and by his experiments to interrogate nature with ...
Nineteenth-Century British Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals: Volume I: Profession – From Apothecary to Pharmacist
1st Edition
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By Stuart Anderson
September 22, 2026
This volume will focus on the professionalization of pharmacy and its separation from medicine in the mid-nineteenth century. Themes which will be covered include women and pharmacy, pharmacy education, and the emergence of pharmaceutical institutions, including ones representing pharmacists ...
Nineteenth-Century British Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals: Volume II: Practice - From Proprietor to Company Chemist
1st Edition
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By Stuart Anderson
September 22, 2026
This volume will focus on the locations in which pharmacy was practised and how practice varied with location. The emphasis will be on chemists’ shops in the community and the emergence of chain pharmacies after 1880. It will also include primary sources illustrating the practice of pharmacy in ...
Nineteenth-Century British Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals: Volume III: Drugs – From Plant Remedy to Pharmaceutical
1st Edition
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By Stuart Anderson
September 22, 2026
This volume will focus on the products that are the most closely associated with pharmacy and on their commodification during the course of the century. It will include material relating to the sourcing of both natural and synthetic medicines which will help to illuminate processes of drug ...
Nineteenth-Century British Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals: Volume IV: World – From Corner Shop to Global Stage
1st Edition
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By Stuart Anderson
September 22, 2026
This volume with focus on the broader roles of pharmacists beyond the supply of medicines and the dispensing of prescriptions. It will cover their various roles in public health and describe their involvement in dentistry and optics. It will explore the responsiveness of pharmacists to outside ...
Nineteenth-Century British Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
1st Edition
Edited
By Stuart Anderson
September 22, 2026
This is a 4-volume collection curating nineteenth-century British primary sources about pharmacy and pharmaceuticals, both of which were transformed during the course of the century....
British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century: Volume I: Foundational Texts
1st Edition
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By Kathleen L. Sheppard
September 07, 2026
Throughout the professionalization of Egyptology in the nineteenth century, there were several debates that raged: the purpose of the pyramids, and who built them; the meaning of hieroglyphs; the styling of statues and artwork on tomb and temple walls; and the history of ancient Egypt, especially ...
British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century: Volume II: Travel Writing
1st Edition
By Kathleen L. Sheppard
September 07, 2026
While there had technically been people studying the ancient Egyptian world since around 400 BCE, the first Western scholars arrived in Egypt the medieval period. It was in 1798 though that the French under Napoleon invaded Egypt not only with an army of soldiers but with an army of scholars, which...