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Conversaziones and the Experience of Science in Victorian England
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In this paper, Conversaziones and the Experience of Science in Victorian England are discussed, with a focus on the relationship between science and social interaction in the early 20th century.Abstract:
(2003). Conversaziones and the Experience of Science in Victorian England. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 208-230.read more
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The Shows of London
TL;DR: A panoramic history of exhibition in London from 1600 to 1862 is described in this paper, where the authors describe the growth of museums; showmen with strange sights; the eidophusikon; panoramas; dioramas; optical and mechanical shows like the cosmorama, phantasmagoria, magic lantern shows; scientific displays including the panopticon; wild beast shows; the Great Exhibition; art shows; photography.
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Introduction: historical geographies of science - places, contexts, cartographies
TL;DR: In this paper, Livingstone outlines the contours of a historical geography of science and argues for the relevance of spatially oriented histories of scientific thought and practice, and considers three different historical geographies of science: those concerned with the places and spaces of science, those that detail the spatial contexts of scientific endeavour, and those that analyse the internal 'cartographies' of scientific theories and methods.
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How scientific conversation became shop talk
TL;DR: This article found evidence that the sciences remained a vital part of conversational culture in England at least through the 1860s, and that discussing specialist knowledge at parties became condemned as 'talking shop'.
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An archaeology of lunacy: Managing madness in early nineteenth-century asylums
TL;DR: This article examined the historic lunatic asylum from an interdisciplinary perspective, employing methods drawn from archaeology, social geography, and history, to create a holistic view of the built heritage of the asylum as a distinctive building type.
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The West Riding Lunatic Asylum and the making of the modern brain sciences in the nineteenth century
TL;DR: The thesis reconstructs the working practices of the asylum, explaining the intellectual and institutional background to its activities and describing its legacy in the field of medical science, and contended that the disciplinary split which occurred between neurology and psychiatry in the late nineteenth century was a legacy of the Asylum.
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Techniques of the observer : on vision and modernity in the nineteenth century
TL;DR: In this article, the camera obscura and its subject subjective vision and the separation of the senses techniques of the observer visionary abstraction are discussed. But they do not consider the observer's subjective vision.
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The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics
TL;DR: The Birth of the Museum as mentioned in this paper explores how nineteenth and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors, and sheds new light upon the relationship between modern forms of official and popular culture.
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The city in history : its origins, its transformations, and its prospects
TL;DR: In this article, the development from ancient times to the modern age is described in detail in the city of New Orleans, and the National Book Award is given for the first time.
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The Shows of London
TL;DR: A panoramic history of exhibition in London from 1600 to 1862 is described in this paper, where the authors describe the growth of museums; showmen with strange sights; the eidophusikon; panoramas; dioramas; optical and mechanical shows like the cosmorama, phantasmagoria, magic lantern shows; scientific displays including the panopticon; wild beast shows; the Great Exhibition; art shows; photography.