Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Philosophies and Epistemologies of Sound

Author:   Edward J. Gillin
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Pages:   398
Publication Date:   22 December 2023
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Author:   Edward J. Gillin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.730kg
ISBN:  

9781032500799


ISBN 10:   1032500794
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   22 December 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
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Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"John Herschel, ‘Sound’, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, Vol. IV, (London, 1830), pp. 747-824. John Herschel, A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green: London, 1831), pp. 246-264. Mary Somerville, Mechanism of the Heavens, (John Murray: London, 1831), pp. lvi-lviii. Mary Somerville, On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, (John Murray: London, 1834), pp. 130-162. David Brewster, ""Review of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences"", Edinburgh Review, Vol. 59, (Apr., 1834), pp. 154-171. Mary Somerville, On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, 2nd Edition, (John Murray: London, 1835), pp. 148-179 inc. plates 1-4. William Whewell, Astronomy and General Physics; considered with reference to natural theology, (William Pickering: London, 1833), pp. 96-118. William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Vol. 1 of 3, (London: John W. Parker, 1837), pp. 102-105. William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Vol. 2 of 3, 3rd edition (London: John W. Parker, 1858), pp. 23-47. William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon their History, Vol. 1 of 2, 2nd Edition, (John W. Parker: London, 1847), pp. 295-306. Christopher Wordsworth, Sacred Music: A Sermon, Preached at the Anniversary of the Choral Association of the Diocese of Llandaff, in the Cathedral Church of Llandaff, Sept., 2, 1868, (Rivingtons: London, 1868), pp. 5-22. W. Mullinger Higgins, The Philosophy of Sound, and History of Music, (Wm S. Orr and Co: London, 1838), pp. 7-35 Thomas Aveling, Recreations, Physical and Mental, Lawful and Unlawful: A Lecture, (London, 1849), pp. 24-29. Herbert Spencer, ‘Progress: its Law and Cause’, in Essays Scientific, Political, and Speculative, (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts), pp. 1-54. Herbert Spencer, ""The Origin and Function of Music"", in Essays Scientific, Political, and speculative, (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts), pp. 359-384. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol 2 of 2, (London: John Murray, 1871), pp. 51-68, 274-278, 330-337. Herbert Spencer, ‘On the Origin of Music"", Mind 16/64 (Oct., 1891), pp. 535-537. Index"

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Dr Edward J. Gillin is Lecturer in the History of Building Sciences and Technology at the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction in University College London. A cultural historian of nineteenth-century Britain, he specialises in questions of science, technology, and architecture, and how these relate to broader histories of society, politics, and religion.

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