Alice Marples
Biographic Data
| ID | 1712174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice Marples |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice |
| FAMILY NAME | Marples |
| SIGNATURE | MARPLES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6073-5365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The science of money
This article uses the records at the Royal Mint to explore how Isaac Newton worked with metal beyond his alchemical and natural philosophical pursuits. It demonstrates how institutional paperwork can be used to think in new ways about the management of working resources as well as the relationship of material and mental practices across the linked urban worlds of state, science and finance. It reveals how Newton negotiated artisanal and administr…
Scholarship, skill and community
This article explores how medical collections, representing repositories of knowledge and prestige, were used in the communication and representation of medical education and provincial identity in Manchester in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It charts the changing ways in which medical collections and knowledge were represented as both pedagogical and promotional devices, demonstrating the importance of a localized approach …
James Petiver's ‘joynt-stock’
This article explores the complexities of James Petiver and Hans Sloane's relationship with one another and their shared contacts, examining the ways in which their networks overlapped but also, crucially, differed from one another. It shows that, though they had common interests and institutional memberships, Petiver ultimately occupied a different urban world from Sloane, a middling, trade-orientated stratum of society with its own forms of soc…
Scientific administration in the early eighteenth century
The poor state of the Royal Society's Repository in the eighteenth century has been seen as a symbol of the institution's decline. This article contributes to recent reinterpretation by putting this collection within its historical contexts of use and understanding, exploring the ambiguous relationship between private and ‘public’ resources by examining the collections alongside other spaces of discursive inquiry and institutional improvement. It…
Elizabeth Yale, Sociable knowledge
This fascinating book explores in fine detail the role of natural historical correspondence in the construction of Britain as a “topographical object” in the seventeenth century. Examining the mate
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Elizabeth Yale, Sociable knowledge
This fascinating book explores in fine detail the role of natural historical correspondence in the construction of Britain as a “topographical object” in the seventeenth century. Examining the mate
Scientific administration in the early eighteenth century
The poor state of the Royal Society's Repository in the eighteenth century has been seen as a symbol of the institution's decline. This article contributes to recent reinterpretation by putting this collection within its historical contexts of use and understanding, exploring the ambiguous relationship between private and ‘public’ resources by examining the collections alongside other spaces of discursive inquiry and institutional improvement. It…
James Petiver's ‘joynt-stock’
This article explores the complexities of James Petiver and Hans Sloane's relationship with one another and their shared contacts, examining the ways in which their networks overlapped but also, crucially, differed from one another. It shows that, though they had common interests and institutional memberships, Petiver ultimately occupied a different urban world from Sloane, a middling, trade-orientated stratum of society with its own forms of soc…
Scholarship, skill and community
This article explores how medical collections, representing repositories of knowledge and prestige, were used in the communication and representation of medical education and provincial identity in Manchester in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It charts the changing ways in which medical collections and knowledge were represented as both pedagogical and promotional devices, demonstrating the importance of a localized approach …
The science of money
This article uses the records at the Royal Mint to explore how Isaac Newton worked with metal beyond his alchemical and natural philosophical pursuits. It demonstrates how institutional paperwork can be used to think in new ways about the management of working resources as well as the relationship of material and mental practices across the linked urban worlds of state, science and finance. It reveals how Newton negotiated artisanal and administr…
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