Science and technology in nineteenth-century Ireland / Juliana Adelman & Éadaoin Agnew, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adelman, Juliana.

Agnew, Éadaoin

Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland.

George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

Series:

Nineteenth-century Ireland series ; 14.

[Nineteenth-century Ireland series] ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Ireland--History--19th century--Congresses.

Science.

Technology--Ireland--History--19th century--Congresses.

Technology.

History.

Ireland.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, [2011]

Contents:

Innovations

The Irish response to Darwinism / Thomas Duddy Duddy, Thomas 18

Asserting medical identities in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland: the case of the water cure in Cork / Elizabeth Neswald Neswald, Elizabeth 32

Grubbs of Dublin: telescope makers to the world / Ian Elliott Elliott, Ian 47

Representing the imagination: a topographical history of Dublin's Monto from Ordnance Survey maps and related materials / Tadhg O'Keeffe O'Keeffe, Tadhg, Patrick Ryan Ryan, Patrick 62

Individuals

A microscopic look at Mary Ward: gender, science and religion in nineteenth-century Ireland / Éadaoin Agnew Agnew, Éadaoin 83

'Pilf'ring from the first creation': Dáibhí de Barra's Parliament of weavers / Seán Ó Duinnshleibhe Duinnshleibhe, Seán Ó 94

Dominick McCausland and Adam's ancestors: an Irish evangelical responds to the scientific challenge to biblical inerrancy / Patrick Maume Maume, Patrick 113

Institutions

The Irish-Catholics-in-science debate: John Tyndall, Cardinal Cullen and the uses of science at Castleknock College in the nineteenth century / James H. Murphy Murphy, James H. 127

'A pure school of science': the Royal College of Science for Ireland and scientific education in Victorian Ireland / Clara Cullen Cullen, Clara 136

Practical science and religious politics: the Glasnevin botanic gardens Sunday opening controversy, 1861 / Vandra Costello Costello, Vandra 150

The learned gendemen are in town: the British Association meeting of 1857 in Dublin's popular press / Sherra Murphy Murphy, Sherra 162.

Notes:

Papers originally presented at a conference hosted by the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1846822912

9781846822919

OCLC:

706626417

Publisher Number:

99943282761