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Hace 4 días · "The life of the Victorian people was profoundly influenced by the practical application of science," notes historian Philip Magnus. Annual production of books leaped from around 600 in the 1830s to nearly 6000 by 1900 thanks to steam-powered printing presses, rail distribution and rising literacy.
19 de may. de 2024 · The Victorian era, a period in British history from 1837 to 1901 during Queen Victoria's reign, was marked by a series of profound inventions that transformed society.
Hace 1 día · An affable country gentleman, Darwin at first shocked religious Victorian society by suggesting that animals and humans shared a common ancestry. However, his nonreligious biology appealed to the rising class of professional scientists, and by the time of his death evolutionary imagery had spread through all of science , literature, and politics.
- Adrian J. Desmond
- Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is the foundation upon which modern evolutionary theory is built. The theory was outlined...
- Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution had three main components: that variation occurred randomly among members of a species; that an individual’s t...
- Growing up, Charles Darwin was always attracted to the sciences. In 1825 his father sent him to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. Ther...
- Charles Darwin was born in England to a well-to-do family in 1809. His father was a doctor, and his mother—who died when he was only eight years ol...
- Charles Darwin’s theories hugely impacted scientific thought. But his ideas also affected the realms of politics, economics, and literature. More i...
Hace 2 días · Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by, but not limited to, 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.
Hace 1 día · His calculations showed that the Sun could not have possibly existed long enough to allow the slow incremental development by evolution—unless it was heated by an energy source beyond the knowledge of Victorian era science.
23 de may. de 2024 · So there is room to make the case that approaching the intellectual history of Victorian Britain through the lens of the ‘human sciences’ might generate fresh insights, as well as clarify the tangled prehistories of its constituent disciplines.
6 de may. de 2024 · history of medicine, the development of the prevention and treatment of disease from prehistoric and ancient times to the 21st century. Medicine and surgery before 1800. Early medicine and folklore.
