... in the understanding of space, time, and the physical world. This chapter begins with Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Cubism around 1910, when an equal revolution in art occurred to those taking place in science. The chapter looks at both the ways in which artists perceived major scientific discoveries...

... to ethnographic scholarship, continually updated, has for at least two projects – one comparative, the other transformational. His transformational project aimed to bring together science and history. His comparative project in law, politics and ritual appears all the more fruitful, given the renewed regard...

... emotions. Drawing on neuroscience and cognitive science, Hogan focuses particularly on how the so-called ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’, a central concept of Trust Theory, can be seen at play in the complex attachment formed by Bosola and the play’s titular Duchess. cognitive sciences disgust Webster John Darwin...

... Samuel Philips née Fowler Katherine William III and II King of England Scotland and Ireland atheism race racism evolution Charles Darwin science and religion progress Dryden was born on 9 August 1631 at Aldwincle, Northamptonshire, the eldest of fourteen children of Erasmus Dryden, son of Sir...

... examines the types of vocational training given in schools, whether informal support and advice; trips to local industries; lessons in maths and science; or subjects such as woodwork for boys and domestic subjects for girls – the latter intended as preparation for domesticity as well as employment. Advice...

... key bodies of texts, the rGyud bzhi and the g.Yu thog snying thig. In the later parts of the chapter I consider two recent Western studies, the edited collection Medicine between Science and Religion (Adams, Schrempf and Craig 2011a) and Janet Gyatso’s book Being Human in a Buddhist World (Gyatso 2015...

... is the context of Dublin society in the late nineteenth century, which was open-minded to the issue of women's higher education, as demonstrated by women's admission to the Museum of Irish Industry and the Royal College of Science from the 1850s and 1860s. This chapter highlights the distinctiveness of Irish...

... Advisory Council for Scientific Policy ACSP Attlee Clement Barlow Alan and Barlow Report 1945 chief scientific advisers CSAs Committee on Future Scientific Policy Barlow Committee Defence Research Policy Committee DRPC Morrison Herbert nuclear research and development science policy Science...

...In the mid-1940s, British scientists were divided by debates about the role, meaning and management of the sciences as they transitioned from war to an uncertain peace. In pursuing its own project of post-war institutional renewal, the Royal Society – Britain’s elite scientific academy...

... of geological information they could neither analyse nor control. They were also aware that the first licenses would expire in 1970, at which time the Ministry would need to know the value of the licensed areas as another round of licensing began. The Institute of Geological Sciences (now the British Geological...

..., this chapter describes the historical context and emotional import of extinction science and its impact on Shelley and Hawthorne. Taking up The Last Man and “The Ambitious Guest,” respectively, the chapter contrasts Shelley’s view of nature as a indiscriminate force that slaughters millions...

... Church Labrador Möschler Heinrich Murdoch John study skins Owl Ibis Glacier Pearson Henry travel exploration history of science ornithology Arctic birds collecting natural history We have seen how Dresser secured his position in ornithological society in chapter 4 , and how he began...

... Interpretation Project Natural heritage interpretation Environmental humanities Ways of looking Ecological narratives Art and science Visitors to the countryside are increasingly faced with a variety of panels, interpretation centres and other interventions that convey selected narratives and ways of seeing...

... forms of practice. The cogency of each of these positions is considered. It is argued that ethnomethodology’s critique of social science, while salutary, seems to imply abolition rather than reform; and the proposal of its complementary relationship to conventional social science leaves open...

...The nineteenth century was theologically fraught not just for Catholicism but for Christianity in general. As the Church struggled to face the challenges thrown up by modern science, Logue maintained a simple faith. This chapter explains the evolution and docility of the mind. The Catholic Church...

... of Michael Logue (1840–1924) has previously been undertaken. Exploring previously under-researched areas, such as the clash between science and faith, university education and state-building, the book contributes to our understanding of the relationship between the Church and the state in modern Ireland...

...The Introduction highlights Dickens’s 1853 ‘The Noble Savage’ as not only his most notorious writing on racial difference but as part of a continuum of thinking about race that intertwines the developing racial science and the exotic childhood stories which continued to hold Dickens in thrall...

...Chapter one, organised around the theme of home, will examine Dickens’s writings leading up to 1848 the year he writes his ‘Review: The Poetry of Science’ for The Examiner, thus formally declaring his avid interest in science. The chapter argues that rather than marking...

...1 ‘Bagstock is Delighted to Have That Opportunity’, Dombey and Son (London: Chapman and Hall, 1892) Chapter two, entitled ‘Poetry of Science, Dombey and Son and The Difference Within’ considers how Dickens’s ‘Review’ establishes a number of paradigms to which...