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  1. Some Problems and Sources in the Foundations of Modern Physiology in Great Britain.Richard D. French - 1971 - History of Science 10 (1):28-55.
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace; some notes on the Welsh connection.R. Elwyn Hughes - 1989 - British Journal for the History of Science 22 (4):401-418.
    Wallace became a full-time naturalist in 1848, the year when he and Bates set out on their journey to South America. Wallace was twenty-five at the time and over half of his life had been spent in various parts of Wales, the land of his birth. Commentators have tended to gloss over or ignore any formative influences from this early period of his life or even to dismiss them as non-existent. This is surprising as it was during the eight or (...)
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  • Higher technological education in Britain: The case of the Manchester Municipal College of Technology. [REVIEW]James Jackson Walsh - 1996 - Minerva 34 (3):219-257.
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  • Managing the Growth of Peer Review at the Royal Society Journals, 1865-1965.Pierpaolo Dondio, Didier Torny, Flaminio Squazzoni & Aileen Fyfe - 2020 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 45 (3):405-429.
    This article examines the evolution of peer review and the modern editorial processes of scholarly journals by analyzing a novel data set derived from the Royal Society’s archives and covering 1865-1965, that is, the historical period in which refereeing became firmly established. Our analysis reveals how the Royal Society’s editorial processes coped with both an increasing reliance on refereeing and a growth in submissions, while maintaining collective responsibility and minimizing research waste. By engaging more of its fellows in editorial activity, (...)
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  • T. H. Huxley's Criticism of German Cell Theory: An Epigenetic and Physiological Interpretation of Cell Structure. [REVIEW]Marsha L. Richmond - 2000 - Journal of the History of Biology 33 (2):247 - 289.
    In 1853, the young Thomas Henry Huxley published a long review of German cell theory in which he roundly criticized the basic tenets of the Schleiden-Schwann model of the cell. Although historians of cytology have dismissed Huxley's criticism as based on an erroneous interpretation of cell physiology, the review is better understood as a contribution to embryology. "The Cell-theory" presents Huxley's "epigenetic" interpretation of histological organization emerging from changes in the protoplasm to replace the "preformationist" cell theory of Schleiden and (...)
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  • Science and the Universities.Roy Porter - 1976 - British Journal for the History of Science 9 (3):320-323.
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  • Prosopography as a Research Tool in History of Science: The British Scientific Community 1700–1900.Steven Shapin & Arnold Thackray - 1974 - History of Science 12 (1):1-28.
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  • Ways of knowing: towards a historical sociology of science, technology and medicine.John V. Pickstone - 1993 - British Journal for the History of Science 26 (4):433-458.
    Among the many groups of scholars whose work now illuminates science, technology and medicine (STM), historians, it seems to me, have a key responsibility not just to elucidate change but to establish and explain variety. One of the big pictures we need is a model of the varieties of STM over time; one which does not presume the timeless existence of disciplines, or the distinctions between science, technology and medicine; a model which is both synchronic and diachronic, and both cognitive (...)
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  • Concepts of power: natural philosophy and the uses of machines in mid-eighteenth-century London.Alan Q. Morton - 1995 - British Journal for the History of Science 28 (1):63-78.
    How may scientific research contribute effectively to industrial development? This question has been debated for many years. However, a recent development in this discussion has come from a number of eminent scientists and others who have become concerned with what has become known as the public understanding of science. According to them, a greater understanding of science by members of the public would result in a higher value being placed on scientific research, which, eventually, would result in both increased social (...)
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  • Visionary or bureaucrat? T. H. Huxley, the Science and Art Department and Science teaching for the working class.Richard A. Jarrell - 1998 - Annals of Science 55 (3):219-240.
    Huxley, the visionary, was a key figure in creating modern science education. He was also an employee and bureaucrat of the Science and Art Department most of his working life. The Department was established to organize scientific education for the working class, and many of Huxley's activities on its behalf marked him as a friend of the artisan. It will be argued here that Huxley's vision of working-class scientific education was not in the least radical but reflected the middle-class views (...)
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  • Redefining the X Axis: "Professionals," "Amateurs" and the Making of Mid-Victorian Biology: A Progress Report. [REVIEW]Adrian Desmond - 2001 - Journal of the History of Biology 34 (1):3 - 50.
    A summary of revisionist accounts of the contextual meaning of "professional" and "amateur," as applied to the mid-Victorian X Club, is followed by an analysis of the liberal goals and inner tensions of this coalition of gentlemen specialists and government teachers. The changing status of amateurs is appraised, as are the new sites for the emerging laboratory discipline of "biology." Various historiographical strategies for recovering the women's role are considered. The relationship of science journalism to professionalization, and the constructive engagement (...)
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  • A Microscopic Incident in a Monumental Struggle: Huxley and Antibiosis in 1875.James Friday - 1974 - British Journal for the History of Science 7 (1):61-71.
    In 1875 T. H. Huxley discovered that a secretion from the mouldpenicillium glaucumhad an ability, unconnected with oxygen deprivation, to inhibit bacterial growth. He recorded his observations in his notebooks and in a single letter to John Tyndall, who at that time was a friend of Lister and a correspondent of Pasteur. Neither Huxley nor Tyndall looked for an explanation of this phenomenon, and neither told anyone else about it.
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  • Science in the City: The London Institution, 1819–40.J. N. Hays - 1974 - British Journal for the History of Science 7 (2):146-162.
    In the first half of the nineteenth century the largest and wealthiest ‘popular’ scientific establishment in London was the London Institution, founded by a group of prominent City men in 1805. During most of its early years this Institution had over 900 members; within a year of its foundation it had accumulated funds of £76,000, which dwarfed those possessed by any similar body in this period; by 1819 it had erected an imposing building in Finsbury Circus, a structure with a (...)
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  • Some aspects of Japanese science, 1868–1945.Eikoh Shimao - 1989 - Annals of Science 46 (1):69-91.
    This is a brief history of Japanese science since the beginning of Japan as a modern state in 1868 to the end of the Second World War. It focuses on five aspects: The intellectual training in Chinese studies prior to the period was significant for the reception of Western science. Chinese ideograms were effectively utilized for creating technical terms for science. Western science and technology were intensively implanted in approximately the first 30 years with the help of a large number (...)
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  • From Alchemy to Atomic War: Frederick Soddy's "Technology Assessment" of Atomic Energy, 1900-1915.Richard E. Sclove - 1989 - Science, Technology and Human Values 14 (2):163-194.
    In 1915, Frederick Soddy, later a winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, warned publicly of the future dangers of atomic war. Hisforesight depended not only upon scientific knowledge, but also upon emotion, creativity, and many sorts of nonscientific knowledge. The latter, which played a role even in the content of Soddy's scientific discoveries, included such diverse sources as contemporary politics, history, science fiction, religion, and ancient alchemy. Soddy's story may offer important, guiding msights for today's efforts in technology assessment.
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  • From phrenology to the laboratory.Tom Quick - 2014 - History of the Human Sciences 27 (5):54-73.
    The claim that mind is an epiphenomenon of the nervous system became academically respectable during the 19th century. The same period saw the establishment of an ideal of science as institutionalized endeavour conducted in laboratories. This article identifies three ways in which the ‘physiological psychology’ movement in Britain contributed to the latter process: first, via an appeal to the authority of difficult-to-access sites in the analysis of nerves; second, through the constitution of a discourse internal to it that privileged epistemology (...)
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  • The Organisation and the Recontextualization of Rika Education in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century in Japan.Tetsuo Isozaki - 2014 - Science & Education 23 (5):1153-1168.
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  • La publication duTreatise on electricity and magnetism de James Clerk Maxwell.Franck Achard - 1998 - Revue de Synthèse 119 (4):511-544.
    Cet article vise à éclairer le contexte universitaire et éditorial qui favorisa la publication du Treatise on electricity and magnetism de James Clerk Maxwell afin de mieux cerner la nature de cette entreprise scientifique. Le projet fut formé en 1867 à l'occasion d'une réforme introduisant l'étude de l'électricité et du magnétisme dans l'enseignement délivré à Cambridge et s'inscrivait dans un mouvement plus vaste qui développait l'enseignement de ces disciplines dans les universités britanniques. L'étude des relations entre le projet de Maxwell (...)
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