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  1. Between Hostile Camps: Sir Humphry Davy's Presidency of The Royal Society of London, 1820–1827.David Philip Miller - 1983 - British Journal for the History of Science 16 (1):1-47.
    The career of Humphry Davy (1778–1829) is one of the fairy tales of early nineteenth-century British science. His rise from obscure Cornish origins to world-wide eminence as a chemical discoverer, to popular celebrity amongst London's scientific audiences, to a knighthood from the Prince Regent, and finally to the Presidency of the Royal Society, provide apposite material for Smilesian accounts of British society as open to talents. But the use of Davy's career to illustrate the thesis that ‘genius will out’ is (...)
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  • Essay Review: William Whewell: Rough Diamond, Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge, and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain.Victorian Britain, Richard Yeo & Jack Morrell - 1994 - History of Science 32 (3):345-359.
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  • Essay Review: William Whewell: Rough Diamond, Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge, and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain.Jack Morrell - 1994 - History of Science 32 (3):345-359.
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  • Essay Review: Science and the Universities: The University in Society. [REVIEW]J. B. Morrell - 1977 - History of Science 15 (2):145-152.
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  • Essay Review: Savants and Clergymen: Science in Culture: The Early Victorian PeriodScience in Culture: The Early Victorian Period. CannonSusan Faye . Pp. xii + 296. £12.50.J. B. Morrell - 1980 - History of Science 18 (1):39-45.
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  • Editing the Darwin Correspondence: A Quantitative Perspective.William Montgomery - 1987 - British Journal for the History of Science 20 (1):13-28.
    Letter writing played an especially important role in Charles Darwin's scientific career. Like all scientists, he often needed to communicate with his colleagues, but Darwin's needs were unusual. In the first place, he lived for only short periods in centres where conversation with other scientists was possible. During his student days in Edinburgh and Cambridge he enjoyed personal contacts with university professors and other naturalists associated with the university communities; however, from 1831–1836 he sailed on theBeaglevoyage. After his return he (...)
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  • Context, Image and Function: a Preliminary Enquiry into the Architecture of Scientific Societies.Sophie Forgan - 1986 - British Journal for the History of Science 19 (1):89-113.
    From the late eighteenth century onwards, urban life underwent increasingly rapid change as towns outgrew their limits, industries polluted their skies and rivers, and a host of new types of building appeared to cater for new needs and activities. Not only did towns look different, but, as Thomas Markus has said, ‘they also ‘felt’ different in the organization of the spaces they contained.’ Buildings which housed scientific activities—the learned societies, literary and philosophical societies, professional institutes, mechanics institutes, and by the (...)
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