The Victorian Palace of Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Building of the Houses of Parliament - Couverture souple

Gillin, Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108411614 ISBN 13 : 9781108411615

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Edward J. Gillin explores the extraordinary role of scientific knowledge in the building of the Houses of Parliament in Victorian Britain.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Edward J. Gillin completed a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford in 2015 and is now a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in British science, technology, architecture, and politics in the nineteenth century, with his current work focusing on the role of sound in the production of Victorian scientific knowledge. Previous works cover topics such as the Cunard Steamship Company, early-twentieth-century political protest, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Eastern steamship. He received the 2015 Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hawksmoor Medal, and in 2016 was awarded the Usher Prize from the Society for the History of Technology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108411614
• ISBN 13: 9781108411615
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 342
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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