Victorian Palace of Science

Victorian Palace of Science

Scientific Knowledge and the Building of the Houses of Parliament

Gillin, Edward J.

Cambridge University Press

06/2019

341

Mole

Inglês

9781108411615

15 a 20 dias

400

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Introduction; 1. A radical building: the science of politics and the new Palace of Westminster; 2. Architecture and knowledge: Charles Barry and the world of mid-nineteenth-century science; 3. 'The Science of Architecture': making geological knowledge for the Houses of Parliament; 4. Chemistry in the Commons: Edinburgh science and David Boswell Reid's ventilating of Parliament, 1834-1854; 5. Enlightening Parliament: the Bude Light in the House of Commons and the illumination of politics; 6. Order in Parliament: George Biddell Airy and the construction of time at Westminster; Conclusion: the house of experiment.
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