William H Brock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1089748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William H Brock |
| GIVEN NAMES | William H |
| FAMILY NAME | Brock |
| SIGNATURE | BROCK W H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6012-7316 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The History of Chemistry
On the nature of stuff
‘On the nature of stuff’ shows that the ability to control fire and temperature led to the first chemical technologies: the production of pottery from fired clays and tempers, metals, glass, and bitumen products. It goes on to describe the early speculation of matter by Greek philosophers, such as Empedocles and Aristotle, before discussing the history of alchemy in Europe and the Muslim empire. The same synonyms were often used for different sub…
Exploring the Hyperarctic
J. S. Rowlinson, Sir James Dewar, 1842–1923. A ruthless chemist. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2012. Pp. xviii + 236, £65.00 (hardback); £58.50 (online orders). ISBN 978-1-4094-0613-6. Professor Dewar Is a better man than you are, None of you asses Can condense gases. Although the subject of one of E
The Royal Society's Glass Workers' Cataract Committee; Sir William Crookes and the development of sunglasses
After the inclusion of a number of industrial diseases and injuries in the Workmen's Compensation Acts of 1896 and 1906, the government asked the Royal Society to investigate how and why glare and heat apparently caused glassworkers to develop cataracts during their working lives. The activities between 1908 and 1928 of the Glass Workers' Cataract Committee, which was made up of chemists, physiologists and ophthalmologists, are discussed. Emphasi…
Popular Science in the Victorian Periodical
Friedrich Julius Otto (1809-1870)
A History of Chemistry. Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent , Isabelle Stengers , Deborah van Dam
Short Notices
Short Notices
Short Notices Roy Porter (ed.), The Medical History of Waters and Spas, Medical History Supplement no. 10, 1990. Pp. xii + 150, illus. Pbk. £18.00 ISBN 0-85484-095-8. WILLIAM H. BROCK WILLIAM H. BROCK University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 6, Issue 1, April 1993, Page 172, https://doi.org/10.1093/sochis/6.1.172 Published: 01 April 1993
Essay Review
Essay Review
A Science of Impurity
A Science of Impurity
164 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE there was no serious support for evolution in Britain before Origin of Species, just as he underestimates the role in early-Victorian cultural history of critics of material progress through technology. Nor does he put religion in its proper place when he states summarily and far too simply that “the conservative Anglicans who controlled Oxford, Cambridge and the medical schools used the idea of divine crea…
Une chimie qui guérit
Energy and Entropy
Physics Teaching in Schools, 1960-85
Study of the role of physics in the British school curriculum and the way the subject has developed in the years from 1960 to 1985 in the UK. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or
Bernard John Norton
and a joint-Lecturer in the History of Science and in Philosophy at the University of Leicester, died unexpectedly from cancer on
The Japanese Connexion
That the export of Scottish engineers and engineering teachers to Japan in the 1870s aided that country's astonishingly rapid process of modernization from a feudal to a capitalist, industrialized society will not occasion surprise or dissent. As the Japan weekly mail editorialized in 1878: In no direction has Japan symbolised her advance towards assimilation of the civilisation of the Western world more emphatically than in that of applied scien…
Liebigiana
Education and Society in Modern Europe . Fritz K. Ringer
The Introduction of Heurism into Japan
Physics, chemistry and higher education in the UK
Essay Review
The Scientists' Declaration
During the decades following the publication of Darwin's Origin of species in 1859, religious belief in England and in particular the Church of England experienced some of the most intense criticism in its history. The early 1860s saw the appearance of Lyell's Evidence of the antiquity of man (1863), Tylor's research on the early history of mankind (1863), Renan's Vie de Jésus (1863), Pius IX's encyclical, Quanta cura , and the accompanying Sylla…
A List of Ph.D. Theses in the History of Science and Related Areas in British Universities, 1945–74
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The Scientists' Declaration
During the decades following the publication of Darwin's Origin of species in 1859, religious belief in England and in particular the Church of England experienced some of the most intense criticism in its history. The early 1860s saw the appearance of Lyell's Evidence of the antiquity of man (1863), Tylor's research on the early history of mankind (1863), Renan's Vie de Jésus (1863), Pius IX's encyclical, Quanta cura , and the accompanying Sylla…
The Japanese Connexion
That the export of Scottish engineers and engineering teachers to Japan in the 1870s aided that country's astonishingly rapid process of modernization from a feudal to a capitalist, industrialized society will not occasion surprise or dissent. As the Japan weekly mail editorialized in 1878: In no direction has Japan symbolised her advance towards assimilation of the civilisation of the Western world more emphatically than in that of applied scien…
A List of Ph.D. Theses in the History of Science and Related Areas in British Universities, 1945–74
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Essay Review
Bernard John Norton
and a joint-Lecturer in the History of Science and in Philosophy at the University of Leicester, died unexpectedly from cancer on
Liebigiana
The selection of the authors of the Bridgewater treatises
THE argument for the existence of God from Design using the model of Newtonian scientific methodology formed the basis of the Natural Theology of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Since the proof of God’s existence rested on what God was believed to have accomplished, and His continual benevolent activity was regarded as the explanation of everything which science could not explain, the power of the argument decreased proportionally as the…
Essay Review
William Prout on Taste, Smell, and Flavor
William Prout on Taste, Smell, and Flavor Get access WILLIAM H. BROCK WILLIAM H. BROCK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXII, Issue 2, April 1967, Pages 184–187, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXII.2.184 Published: 01 April 1967
Discovery of the Elements . Mary Elvira Weeks , Henry M. Leicester
H. E. Armstrong and the Teaching of Science, 1880-1930
Our need to honour Huxley's will (1933) 2. On the teaching of Natural Science as a part of the Ordinary School Course and on the method of teaching Chemistry on the Introductory Courses in Science Classes, Schools and Colleges (1884) 3. Suggestions for a course of elementary instruction in Physical Science (1889) 4. The aims and practice of teaching Chemistry (1897) 5. The Heuristic method of teaching or The art of making children discover things…
A List of Ph.D. Theses in the History of Science and Related Areas in British Universities, 1945–74
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Scientists' Declaration
During the decades following the publication of Darwin's Origin of species in 1859, religious belief in England and in particular the Church of England experienced some of the most intense criticism in its history. The early 1860s saw the appearance of Lyell's Evidence of the antiquity of man (1863), Tylor's research on the early history of mankind (1863), Renan's Vie de Jésus (1863), Pius IX's encyclical, Quanta cura , and the accompanying Sylla…
Physics, chemistry and higher education in the UK
Essay Review
The Introduction of Heurism into Japan
Education and Society in Modern Europe . Fritz K. Ringer
The Japanese Connexion
That the export of Scottish engineers and engineering teachers to Japan in the 1870s aided that country's astonishingly rapid process of modernization from a feudal to a capitalist, industrialized society will not occasion surprise or dissent. As the Japan weekly mail editorialized in 1878: In no direction has Japan symbolised her advance towards assimilation of the civilisation of the Western world more emphatically than in that of applied scien…
Liebigiana
Bernard John Norton
and a joint-Lecturer in the History of Science and in Philosophy at the University of Leicester, died unexpectedly from cancer on
Physics Teaching in Schools, 1960-85
Study of the role of physics in the British school curriculum and the way the subject has developed in the years from 1960 to 1985 in the UK. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or
Energy and Entropy
Une chimie qui guérit
Essay Review
Essay Review
A Science of Impurity
A Science of Impurity
164 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE there was no serious support for evolution in Britain before Origin of Species, just as he underestimates the role in early-Victorian cultural history of critics of material progress through technology. Nor does he put religion in its proper place when he states summarily and far too simply that “the conservative Anglicans who controlled Oxford, Cambridge and the medical schools used the idea of divine crea…
Short Notices
Short Notices
Short Notices Roy Porter (ed.), The Medical History of Waters and Spas, Medical History Supplement no. 10, 1990. Pp. xii + 150, illus. Pbk. £18.00 ISBN 0-85484-095-8. WILLIAM H. BROCK WILLIAM H. BROCK University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 6, Issue 1, April 1993, Page 172, https://doi.org/10.1093/sochis/6.1.172 Published: 01 April 1993
A History of Chemistry. Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent , Isabelle Stengers , Deborah van Dam
Friedrich Julius Otto (1809-1870)
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