Book of Donmon Teith

Essays examining the ways in which the Victorian periodical press presented the scientific developments of the time to general and specialized audiences. Ninete

The historical interface between science and religion was depicted as an unbridgeable conflict in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Starting in the 19

The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, a

Kew Observatory was originally built in 1769 for King George III, a keen amateur astronomer, so that he could observe the transit of Venus. By the mid-nineteent

From the late nineteenth century onwards religion gave way to science as the dominant force in society. This led to a questioning of the principle of free will