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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Royal Society"”.
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Scientific naturalists and the government of the Royal Society 1850-1900
The everyday life of the Royal Society in the second half of the nineteenth century is a largely unworked field within the history of Victorian science. As the principal forum for English science, the Royal Society was a crucial context for' the working out of the major changes in science over the …
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“She erected schools, and founded several societies”: Reimagining Margaret Cavendish’s Visit to The Royal Society
… Cavendish’s attendance at a meeting of the Royal Society on May 30, 1667 is often cited as proof that she was deeply hostile towards early scientific experimentalism. While some scholars have noted the disdain with which the Society supposedly viewed Cavendish, others have pointed to various …
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An investigation into the design, production and display contexts of industrial safety posters produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents during WW2 and a catalogue of posters
The industrial safety posters produced by Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) during WW2 are evidence of a politically progressive, socially engaged and mass-produced graphic communication in Britain. These characteristics allow the RoSPA posters to qualify, by Walter Benjamin’s …
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Florilegia, a fictional dialogue with the works of Anna Atkins: How does a fictional response to the works of Anna Atkins provide a new retelling of her work?
… albums of Anna Atkins have remained in The Royal Society, The Linnean Society, The British Library and the V&A since she donated them in 1852. Daughter of famous scientist J.G. Children, president of the Royal Society, Atkins made over 100, uncredited, illustrations for Children’s …
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No "Idle Fancy:" The Imagination's Work in Poetry and Natural Philosophy from Sidney to Sprat
… among other professions. For Bacon, Galileo, and Royal Society fellows, the poetic imagination revealed material explanations of nature's order that other orthodox models and methods could not. For the first decades of the seventeenth century, the imagination aligned poetry and natural philosophy …
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Scientific controversy and the new astronomy: the intellectual and social contexts of the Hevelius-Hooke dispute
… formation of scientific societies, such as the Royal Society in London and the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, where members worked together as a collective to validate knowledge. Because members could freely dissent within the community, a prescribed behavior for participants in disputes …
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The Moral Paradox of the "Brain Drain"
In the 1960`s the British Royal Society coined the term ‗brain drain` to describe the migration of scientists, physicians, and engineers from Britain to North America (Cervantes). Over the past three decades, the ―brain drain‖ of educated professionals from less affluent to more affluent nations …
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Forensic collision investigation: finding the order within the chaos
… in a long-standing forensic textbook for the Royal Society of Chemistry, to producing webinar series for LexisNexis. Finally, the work as an Expert Witness, not only in the UK but internationally, is described and the act of giving expert evidence and its significance are all combined in this …
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Information visualization as creative nonfiction
… process resulting in a system called the Royal Society Network. This thesis investigates the themes of various types of objectivity, the layering of quantitative and qualitative methods, the parallel relationship between investigation and visualization, and the graphical nature of …
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Cultivating the civic scientist: Science communication & tertiary biotechnology education
… and science students has been recommended (Royal Society, 2006b). This training should provide a fundamental support for improving scientists' ability to act as civic scientists by engaging with the public. Using an Australian biotechnology degree program as a case study, this doctoral study …
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Passwords to power: a public rationale for expert influence on central government policy-making: British scientists and economists. c.1900-c.1925
… a case study of the Food (War) Committee of the Royal Society, which contained both scientists and economists. I argue that such a study of rhetoric is of great importance as a prerequisite for a correct understanding of the relations between experts and government in this period. Rhetoric must …
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Physical conclusions? An exploration of [dis]continuities in Thomas Vaughan’s [Al]Chemical tracts.
… ( 1618-1700), a member of the then nascent Royal Society. Henshaw was introduced to the Hartlib circle by the American Dr Robert Child ( 1613-1654). Prefatory material by the translator John French ( 16167-1657) indicates Child’s friendship with Vaughan and the nexus o f chemical …
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The evolution of the Teachers' Registration Movement from 1846 to 2005
… teachers is considered in the context of the royal commissions on education, of the early examinations provided by the College of Preceptors, Oxford and Cambridge universities and the Royal Society of Arts, and of the Scholastic Registration Association. Ground-breaking themes are employed in …
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Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800.
… celebrate the return of Charles II through the Royalist oak and the tropical orange, employing both trees as symbols of a British landscape that praises the monarch by welcoming exotic flora from across the globe. Chapter 2 tracks the ways in which exotic flora represent the masculine aesthetic …
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An Unfolding Voyage: Rephotography and the Challenger Expedition
… “photographs of native races to one scale” (Royal Society, 1872) but the 500 plus images remain largely unseen by a wider public. This practice-led PhD adopts rephotography, a method of taking a photograph from the same vantage point as an existing photographic image, and expands it using …
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Formulación y caracterización de emulsiones de de limoneno estabilizadas por un tensioactivo polimérico
… (1998) Modern Aspects of Emulsion Science. The Royal Society of Chemistry Publication Dickinson, E. (1992). Introduction to food colloids. Oxford University Press. Höfer, R., & Bigorra, J. (2007). Green chemistry¿a sustainable solution for industrial specialties applications. Green Chemistry, …
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Phosphorus fate and management on the Somerset Levels and Moors Ramsar ditch systems
… observed between sites outside and within the Royal Society of the Protection of Birds nature reserve, using principal component analysis. Secondly, an investigation assessed the chemical speciation of sediment phosphorus in the ditch systems. Based upon their associations with different …
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Raman and SERS studies of filamentous fungi
Fungal species perform many important roles in biotechnology and recycling and act as agents of disease and decay. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has attracted significant attention as an analytical method for chemical and biological identification. For SERS experiments, it is essential …
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Alchemists, Epics, and Heroes: The Rhetorical Construction of the Seventeenth Century Experimental Philosopher
… interpretation of Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society as a prose epic. The way in which Sprat incorporates epic tropes such as the in medias res opening, the invocation and re-invocations of his muse, the epic journey and quest, the divine intervention in the human world, and the epic …
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