Matthew Daniel Eddy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1033792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Daniel Eddy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Eddy |
| SIGNATURE | EDDY M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9528-4864 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age
The Nature of Notebooks: How Enlightenment Schoolchildren Transformed the Tabula Rasa
John Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank piece of paper, the tabula rasa , was one of the most recognizable metaphors of the British Enlightenment. Though scholars embrace its impact on the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, they seldom consider why the metaphor was so successful. Concentrating on the notebooks made and used by the schoolchildren of Enlightenment Scotland, this essay contends that the answer lies in th…
The politics of cognition: Liberalism and the evolutionary origins of Victorian education
In recent years the historical relationship between scientific experts and the state has received increasing scrutiny. Such experts played important roles in the creation and regulation of environmental organizations and functioned as agents dispatched by politicians or bureaucrats to assess health-related problems and concerns raised by the public or the judiciary. But when it came to making public policy, scientists played another role that has…
How to See a Diagram: A Visual Anthropology of Chemical Affinity
In 1766, Thomas Cochrane entered the Edinburgh classroom of Joseph Black (1728-99) to learn chemistry for the first time. Cochrane was studying medicine, and, like so many of Black's students, he dutifully recorded several diagrams in his notebooks. These visualizations were not complex. They were, in fact, simple. One of them, reproduced in this essay, was a single "X" a chiasm. Black used it to illustrate ratios of chemical attraction. This dia…
An Introduction toChemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World
The essays in this volume collectively cover the development of chemistry in the “early modern world,” that is to say, from the fifteenth century through the eighteenth century. Until comparatively recently, this period was of less interest to historians of chemistry than the succeeding era of the emergence of “modern” chemistry, with its familiar chemical elements, compounds, and equations. But recent research, exemplified by the essays of this …
The Shape of Knowledge: Children and the Visual Culture of Literacy and Numeracy
The ArgumentIn 1787 an anonymous student of the Perth Academy spent countless hours transforming his rough classroom notes into a beautifully inscribed notebook. Though this was an everyday practice for many Enlightenment students, extant notebooks of this nature are extremely rare and we know very little about how middle class children learned to inscribe and visualize knowledge on paper. This essay addresses this lacuna by using recently locate…
The prehistoric mind as a historical artefact
The line of reason: Hugh Blair, spatiality and the progressive structure of language
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, words were seen as artefacts that afforded insights into the mental capacities of the early humans. In this article I address the late Enlightenment foundations of this model by focusing on Professor Hugh Blair, a leading voice on the relationship between language, progressivism and culture. Whereas the writings of grammarians and educators such as Blair have received little attention in histories of nascent…
Tools for Reordering: Commonplacing and the Space of Words in Linnaeus's Philosophia Botanica
While much has been written on the cultural and intellectual antecedents that gave rise to Carolus Linnaeus’s herbarium and his Systema Naturae, the tools that he used to transform his raw observations into nomenclatural terms and categories have been neglected. Focusing on the Philosophia Botanica, the popular classification handbook that he published in 1751, it can be shown that Linnaeus cleverly ordered and reordered the work by employing com…
The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Edited by Thomas Brudholm and Thomas Cushman Nations Have the Right to Kill: Hitler, the Holocaust and War by Richard A. Koe…
An adept in medicine’: The Reverend Dr William Laing, nervous complaints and the commodification of spa water
The medium of signs: Nominalism, language and the philosophy of mind in the early thought of Dugald Stewart
Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment
Peter Hanns Reill, Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment , Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. 398. $35.95. ISBN 0-520-24135-5. During the early modern period, many theories were used to discuss the source of life; that 'spark', divine or other, which differentiated animate from inanimate matter. On the eve of the eighteenth century, the two competing schools that sought to explain this phenomenon were the mechanists and the vita…
Scottish chemistry, classification and the early mineralogical career of the ‘ingenious’ Rev. Dr John Walker (1746 to 1779)
The Rev. Dr John Walker was the Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh from 1779 to 1803. Although his time in this position has been addressed by several studies, the previous thirty years that he spent ‘mineralizing’ have been virtually ignored. The situation is similar for many of the well-known mineralogists of the eighteenth century and there is a lack of studies that address how a mineralogist actually became a mineralo…
Geology, Mineralogy and Time in John Walker's University of Edinburgh Natural History Lectures (1779-1803)
Cet article presente une recherche sur la conception du temps et de son role dans le monde naturel de John Walker professeur d'histoire naturelle de l'Universite d'Edimbourg. La premiere partie developpe des elements biographiques demontrant son importance dans le cercle de l'histoire naturelle a son epoque et la deuxieme partie montre les sources de l'historien dans sa demarche interdisciplinaire
The Shape of Knowledge: Children and the Visual Culture of Literacy and Numeracy
The ArgumentIn 1787 an anonymous student of the Perth Academy spent countless hours transforming his rough classroom notes into a beautifully inscribed notebook. Though this was an everyday practice for many Enlightenment students, extant notebooks of this nature are extremely rare and we know very little about how middle class children learned to inscribe and visualize knowledge on paper. This essay addresses this lacuna by using recently locate…
Tools for Reordering: Commonplacing and the Space of Words in Linnaeus's Philosophia Botanica
While much has been written on the cultural and intellectual antecedents that gave rise to Carolus Linnaeus’s herbarium and his Systema Naturae, the tools that he used to transform his raw observations into nomenclatural terms and categories have been neglected. Focusing on the Philosophia Botanica, the popular classification handbook that he published in 1751, it can be shown that Linnaeus cleverly ordered and reordered the work by employing com…
Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment
Peter Hanns Reill, Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment , Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. 398. $35.95. ISBN 0-520-24135-5. During the early modern period, many theories were used to discuss the source of life; that 'spark', divine or other, which differentiated animate from inanimate matter. On the eve of the eighteenth century, the two competing schools that sought to explain this phenomenon were the mechanists and the vita…
How to See a Diagram: A Visual Anthropology of Chemical Affinity
In 1766, Thomas Cochrane entered the Edinburgh classroom of Joseph Black (1728-99) to learn chemistry for the first time. Cochrane was studying medicine, and, like so many of Black's students, he dutifully recorded several diagrams in his notebooks. These visualizations were not complex. They were, in fact, simple. One of them, reproduced in this essay, was a single "X" a chiasm. Black used it to illustrate ratios of chemical attraction. This dia…
The Nature of Notebooks: How Enlightenment Schoolchildren Transformed the Tabula Rasa
John Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank piece of paper, the tabula rasa , was one of the most recognizable metaphors of the British Enlightenment. Though scholars embrace its impact on the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, they seldom consider why the metaphor was so successful. Concentrating on the notebooks made and used by the schoolchildren of Enlightenment Scotland, this essay contends that the answer lies in th…
An adept in medicine’: The Reverend Dr William Laing, nervous complaints and the commodification of spa water
Geology, Mineralogy and Time in John Walker's University of Edinburgh Natural History Lectures (1779-1803)
Cet article presente une recherche sur la conception du temps et de son role dans le monde naturel de John Walker professeur d'histoire naturelle de l'Universite d'Edimbourg. La premiere partie developpe des elements biographiques demontrant son importance dans le cercle de l'histoire naturelle a son epoque et la deuxieme partie montre les sources de l'historien dans sa demarche interdisciplinaire
Geology, Mineralogy and Time in John Walker's University of Edinburgh Natural History Lectures (1779-1803)
Cet article presente une recherche sur la conception du temps et de son role dans le monde naturel de John Walker professeur d'histoire naturelle de l'Universite d'Edimbourg. La premiere partie developpe des elements biographiques demontrant son importance dans le cercle de l'histoire naturelle a son epoque et la deuxieme partie montre les sources de l'historien dans sa demarche interdisciplinaire
Scottish chemistry, classification and the early mineralogical career of the ‘ingenious’ Rev. Dr John Walker (1746 to 1779)
The Rev. Dr John Walker was the Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh from 1779 to 1803. Although his time in this position has been addressed by several studies, the previous thirty years that he spent ‘mineralizing’ have been virtually ignored. The situation is similar for many of the well-known mineralogists of the eighteenth century and there is a lack of studies that address how a mineralogist actually became a mineralo…
The medium of signs: Nominalism, language and the philosophy of mind in the early thought of Dugald Stewart
Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment
Peter Hanns Reill, Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment , Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. 398. $35.95. ISBN 0-520-24135-5. During the early modern period, many theories were used to discuss the source of life; that 'spark', divine or other, which differentiated animate from inanimate matter. On the eve of the eighteenth century, the two competing schools that sought to explain this phenomenon were the mechanists and the vita…
An adept in medicine’: The Reverend Dr William Laing, nervous complaints and the commodification of spa water
The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Edited by Thomas Brudholm and Thomas Cushman Nations Have the Right to Kill: Hitler, the Holocaust and War by Richard A. Koe…
Tools for Reordering: Commonplacing and the Space of Words in Linnaeus's Philosophia Botanica
While much has been written on the cultural and intellectual antecedents that gave rise to Carolus Linnaeus’s herbarium and his Systema Naturae, the tools that he used to transform his raw observations into nomenclatural terms and categories have been neglected. Focusing on the Philosophia Botanica, the popular classification handbook that he published in 1751, it can be shown that Linnaeus cleverly ordered and reordered the work by employing com…
The prehistoric mind as a historical artefact
The line of reason: Hugh Blair, spatiality and the progressive structure of language
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, words were seen as artefacts that afforded insights into the mental capacities of the early humans. In this article I address the late Enlightenment foundations of this model by focusing on Professor Hugh Blair, a leading voice on the relationship between language, progressivism and culture. Whereas the writings of grammarians and educators such as Blair have received little attention in histories of nascent…
The Shape of Knowledge: Children and the Visual Culture of Literacy and Numeracy
The ArgumentIn 1787 an anonymous student of the Perth Academy spent countless hours transforming his rough classroom notes into a beautifully inscribed notebook. Though this was an everyday practice for many Enlightenment students, extant notebooks of this nature are extremely rare and we know very little about how middle class children learned to inscribe and visualize knowledge on paper. This essay addresses this lacuna by using recently locate…
How to See a Diagram: A Visual Anthropology of Chemical Affinity
In 1766, Thomas Cochrane entered the Edinburgh classroom of Joseph Black (1728-99) to learn chemistry for the first time. Cochrane was studying medicine, and, like so many of Black's students, he dutifully recorded several diagrams in his notebooks. These visualizations were not complex. They were, in fact, simple. One of them, reproduced in this essay, was a single "X" a chiasm. Black used it to illustrate ratios of chemical attraction. This dia…
An Introduction toChemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World
The essays in this volume collectively cover the development of chemistry in the “early modern world,” that is to say, from the fifteenth century through the eighteenth century. Until comparatively recently, this period was of less interest to historians of chemistry than the succeeding era of the emergence of “modern” chemistry, with its familiar chemical elements, compounds, and equations. But recent research, exemplified by the essays of this …
The politics of cognition: Liberalism and the evolutionary origins of Victorian education
In recent years the historical relationship between scientific experts and the state has received increasing scrutiny. Such experts played important roles in the creation and regulation of environmental organizations and functioned as agents dispatched by politicians or bureaucrats to assess health-related problems and concerns raised by the public or the judiciary. But when it came to making public policy, scientists played another role that has…
The Nature of Notebooks: How Enlightenment Schoolchildren Transformed the Tabula Rasa
John Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank piece of paper, the tabula rasa , was one of the most recognizable metaphors of the British Enlightenment. Though scholars embrace its impact on the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, they seldom consider why the metaphor was so successful. Concentrating on the notebooks made and used by the schoolchildren of Enlightenment Scotland, this essay contends that the answer lies in th…
Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age
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