Trevor H Levere
Biographic Data
| ID | 3607382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trevor H Levere |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trevor H |
| FAMILY NAME | Levere |
| SIGNATURE | LEVERE T H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Aux origins de la chimie organique: Méthodes et pratiques des pharmaciens et des chimistes (1785–1835) (review)
Reviewed by: Aux origins de la chimie organique: Méthodes et pratiques des pharmaciens et des chimistes (1785–1835) Trevor Levere (bio) Aux origins de la chimie organique: Méthodes et pratiques des pharmaciens et des chimistes (1785–1835). By Sacha Tomic. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010. Pp. 312. €20. Sacha Tomic has written a clear and incisive account of the origins of organic chemistry, with two principal goals: first, to presen…
Dr Thomas Beddoes: Chemistry, medicine, and the perils of democracy
Beddoes lectured on chemistry at Oxford in the years that included the French Revolution, the Terror, and the outbreak of war with France, as well as the success in France of the chemical revolution. The very public dispute between Edmund Burke and Joseph Priestley meant that the latter's study of different kinds of air was politically tainted. Beddoes's democratic beliefs and his support for the new chemistry of Lavoisier meant that as chemist a…
The Most Select and the Most Democratic: A Century of Science in the Royal Society of Canada
This paper is a history of the Science Academy of the Royal Society of Canada, from its foundation in 1882 until the early 1990s. The RSC has always had an honorific role, but it has sought a more substantive one in science, in advising government, in scientific publication (a role that it has largely lost to the National Research Council and to other scientific societies and journals), in educating the public, in representing Canada internationa…
The Victorian Scientist: The Growth of a Profession , by Jack Meadows
The role of instruments in the dissemination of the Chemical Revolution
The spread of the late eighteenth-century chemical revolution depended on access to appropriate apparatus. Theories depend upon practice, which depends upon instruments. Pneumatic chemistry required new apparatus for the isolation, measurement, and admixture of difFerent gases. Lavoisier's pneumatic chemistry invoived his new, refined, expensive gasometers. The development of cheaper but still fimctional gasometers by chemists and instrument make…
Experiment, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century , by Ursula Klein
"Experiment, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century, by Ursula Klein." Canadian Journal of History, 39(1), pp. 214–215
Addicted to Experimental Philosophy: The Works of Robert Boyle
Transforming Matter: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball (Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science)
"Chemistry explores the way atoms interact, the constitution of the stars, and the human genome. Knowledge of chemistry makes it possible for us to manufacture dyes and antibiotics, metallic alloys, and other materials that contribute to the necessities and luxuries of human life. In Transforming Matter, noted historian Trevor H. Levere emphasizes that understanding the history of these developments helps us to appreciate the achievements of gene…
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on nature and reason: With a response from William Whewell
The Arctic: A History, by Richard Vaughan
This book has a number of notable features for readers interested in Arctic affairs.Chapter 3 is devoted entirely to the Arctic, while numerous Arctic examples throughout the book illustrate cooperation towards environmental protection.Without directly addressing the question, Chapter 3 raises important issues that are currently confronting Arctic policymakers as they seek to implement the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy and consider the…
Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain, Ideas in Context 27, by Richard Yeo
A History of Western Science . Anthony M. Alioto
Science and the Canadian Arctic: A Century of Exploration, 1818-1918
Coppermine
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access Felix Driver and Gillian Rose (eds.), Nature and Science: Essays in the History of Geographical Knowledge, Bristol: Historical Geography Research Series No. 28, 1992. Pp. vi + 28. N.p. ISBN 1-870074-10-6. TREVOR H. LEVERE TREVOR H. LEVERE University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 6, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages …
Nature, Experiment, and the Sciences: Essays on Galileo and the History of Science in Honour of Stillman Drake
Science and Technology in Canadian History: A Bibliography of Primary Sources to 1914 . R. A. Richardson , B. H. MacDonald
Science and the Canadian Arctic, 1818-76, from Sir John Ross to Sir George Strong Nares
Nineteenth-century exploration of the Canadian Arctic, primarily directed by the British Admiralty, had scientific as well as geographical goals. Many expeditions, including Franklin's, had a major scientific mandate. A northwest passage was the initial inspiration, but geomagnetism (under Edward Sabine's guidance), meteorology, zoology, geology, botany, and ethnology were the principal sciences that benefited. The Royal Society of London, with i…
Henry Wemyss Feilden, naturalist on HMS Alert 1875–1876
Capt Henry Wemyss Feilden RA, an amateur naturalist with particular interests in ornithology, was appointed by the Royal Society of London to serve as one of two naturalists with the British Arctic Expedition of 1875–76, which wintered off northern Ellesmere Island under the command of Capt G. S. Nares RN. Feilden took part in several sledging journeys, and made important collections and observations, especially on the geology and biology of the …
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Continental Shelf, and a New Arctic Continent
Between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, roughly two hundred expeditions set out for what is now the Canadian Arctic, from its boundary with Alaska in the West, along the northern shore of Canada and including the Arctic archipelago between that shore and the pole, to the marine boundary with Danish Greenland in the East. For more than half a century, these expeditions were little concerned with Canada as a political entity; after all…
The History of Science of Canada
Canada as a Neo-Europe is a relatively recent construct, although the people of its first nations, the Indians and Inuit, have been here for some twelve thousand years, since the beginning of the retreat of the last ice sheets. Western science came in a limited way with the first European explorers; Samuel de Champlain left a mariner's astrolabe behind him. The Jesuits followed with their organization and educational institutions, and from the ei…
Edward Sabine (1788-1883)
After the Napoleonic wars, he, like many others in the British army and the Royal Navy, found himself underemployed; he chose to pursue scientific studies, notably in ornithology, astronomy, and magnetism. In 1818 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and shortly thereafter found himself appointed astronomer to John Ross's expedition in search of the Northwest Passage. Ross sailed in May on the Isabella, accompanied by William Ed…
Dr. Thomas Beddoes (1750–1808): Science and medicine in politics and society
The career of Thomas Beddoes was moulded by British responses to the French Revolution. Beddoes, until appalled by the events of the Terror, saw France as the model for mankind. The government of England took the very different view that democracy was closely allied with jacobinism and sedition. The Home Office was the agency most immediately engaged in opposing sedition, and any criticism of the King, or of the constitution in church and state, …
Dr Thomas Beddoes The Interaction of Pneumatic and Preventive Medicine with Chemistry
Chemistry has often been pressed into the service of medicine. In the years following Lavoisier's chemical revolution, the attention of chemists focused upon gases. Thomas Beddoes (1760–1808) developed a research programme that explored the therapeutic effects of different gases in the treatment of tuberculosis and other diseases. Beddoes was inspired by the discoveries of Joseph Priestley, employed young Humphry Davy as an assistant in his resea…
Poetry Realized in Nature: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Early Nineteenth-Century Science
Faraday, Matter, and Natural Theology—Reflections on an Unpublished Manuscript
The publication of L. Pearce Williams's definitive biography of Faraday has led to lively discussion of the influence of Naturphilosophie on Davy and Faraday, and of the role played by Bosco vichean atomism in their scientific development. In a recent article J. Brookes Spencer argued that Boscovich's force law, involving interaction between point atoms independent of surrounding particles, was only compatible with Faraday's view of gravity and n…
Dr Thomas Beddoes The Interaction of Pneumatic and Preventive Medicine with Chemistry
Chemistry has often been pressed into the service of medicine. In the years following Lavoisier's chemical revolution, the attention of chemists focused upon gases. Thomas Beddoes (1760–1808) developed a research programme that explored the therapeutic effects of different gases in the treatment of tuberculosis and other diseases. Beddoes was inspired by the discoveries of Joseph Priestley, employed young Humphry Davy as an assistant in his resea…
Science and the Canadian Arctic: A Century of Exploration, 1818-1918
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Continental Shelf, and a New Arctic Continent
Between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, roughly two hundred expeditions set out for what is now the Canadian Arctic, from its boundary with Alaska in the West, along the northern shore of Canada and including the Arctic archipelago between that shore and the pole, to the marine boundary with Danish Greenland in the East. For more than half a century, these expeditions were little concerned with Canada as a political entity; after all…
Addicted to Experimental Philosophy: The Works of Robert Boyle
The History of Science of Canada
Canada as a Neo-Europe is a relatively recent construct, although the people of its first nations, the Indians and Inuit, have been here for some twelve thousand years, since the beginning of the retreat of the last ice sheets. Western science came in a limited way with the first European explorers; Samuel de Champlain left a mariner's astrolabe behind him. The Jesuits followed with their organization and educational institutions, and from the ei…
Faraday, Matter, and Natural Theology—Reflections on an Unpublished Manuscript
The publication of L. Pearce Williams's definitive biography of Faraday has led to lively discussion of the influence of Naturphilosophie on Davy and Faraday, and of the role played by Bosco vichean atomism in their scientific development. In a recent article J. Brookes Spencer argued that Boscovich's force law, involving interaction between point atoms independent of surrounding particles, was only compatible with Faraday's view of gravity and n…
Galileo's Intellectual Revolution. Middle Period, 1610-1632
fit into the morally structured interpretation, as happened during Giovanni's last unhappy years of economic reverses and political upheavals?Green points out that two solutions were available to him.In dealing with the material of history, either he could overempha- size the role of the supernatural, interpreting omens and signs in an apocalyptic way (the solution chosen by Villani), or he could blame human folly for the failure of events to wor…
Friendship and influence - Martinus Van Marum, F. R. S
In 1798, after more than ten years of an involved, campaign, Martinus van Marum, Secretary of the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Dutch Society of Sciences), at last achieved his election as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. This note, after briefly introducing van Marum in time and place, relates the progress of that campaign
Relations and Rivalry: Interactions between Britain and the Netherlands in Eighteenth-Century Science and Technology
Martinus van Marum, Life and Work. Vol. IV, Van Marum's Scientific Instruments in Teyler's Museum
Martinus van Marum: Life and Work. Vol. 4
John Dalton. Critical Assessments of His Life and Science . Arnold Thackray
Dr Thomas Beddoes and the establishment of his Pneumatic Institution: A tale of three Presidents
In 1793 Dr Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) moved from Oxford to Bristol where he worked to found his Pneumatic Institution. Davies Giddy (Gilbert) (1767-1839), once his protege and subsequently President of the Royal Society, supported Beddoes in this enterprise. He recommended young Humphry Davy (1778-1829), another future P.R.S., as superintendent of the Institution’s Laboratory. Joseph Banks (1743-1820), P.R.S., firmly witheld his name and his purs…
Chimie et Technique Gay-Lussac: Scientist and Bourgeois . Maurice Crosland Le chimiste Claude-Louis Berthollet (1748-1822): Sa vie, son oeuvre . Michelle Sadoun-Goupil
Dr Thomas Beddoes The Interaction of Pneumatic and Preventive Medicine with Chemistry
Chemistry has often been pressed into the service of medicine. In the years following Lavoisier's chemical revolution, the attention of chemists focused upon gases. Thomas Beddoes (1760–1808) developed a research programme that explored the therapeutic effects of different gases in the treatment of tuberculosis and other diseases. Beddoes was inspired by the discoveries of Joseph Priestley, employed young Humphry Davy as an assistant in his resea…
Poetry Realized in Nature: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Early Nineteenth-Century Science
Dr. Thomas Beddoes (1750–1808): Science and medicine in politics and society
The career of Thomas Beddoes was moulded by British responses to the French Revolution. Beddoes, until appalled by the events of the Terror, saw France as the model for mankind. The government of England took the very different view that democracy was closely allied with jacobinism and sedition. The Home Office was the agency most immediately engaged in opposing sedition, and any criticism of the King, or of the constitution in church and state, …
Edward Sabine (1788-1883)
After the Napoleonic wars, he, like many others in the British army and the Royal Navy, found himself underemployed; he chose to pursue scientific studies, notably in ornithology, astronomy, and magnetism. In 1818 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and shortly thereafter found himself appointed astronomer to John Ross's expedition in search of the Northwest Passage. Ross sailed in May on the Isabella, accompanied by William Ed…
Science and the Canadian Arctic, 1818-76, from Sir John Ross to Sir George Strong Nares
Nineteenth-century exploration of the Canadian Arctic, primarily directed by the British Admiralty, had scientific as well as geographical goals. Many expeditions, including Franklin's, had a major scientific mandate. A northwest passage was the initial inspiration, but geomagnetism (under Edward Sabine's guidance), meteorology, zoology, geology, botany, and ethnology were the principal sciences that benefited. The Royal Society of London, with i…
Henry Wemyss Feilden, naturalist on HMS Alert 1875–1876
Capt Henry Wemyss Feilden RA, an amateur naturalist with particular interests in ornithology, was appointed by the Royal Society of London to serve as one of two naturalists with the British Arctic Expedition of 1875–76, which wintered off northern Ellesmere Island under the command of Capt G. S. Nares RN. Feilden took part in several sledging journeys, and made important collections and observations, especially on the geology and biology of the …
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Continental Shelf, and a New Arctic Continent
Between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, roughly two hundred expeditions set out for what is now the Canadian Arctic, from its boundary with Alaska in the West, along the northern shore of Canada and including the Arctic archipelago between that shore and the pole, to the marine boundary with Danish Greenland in the East. For more than half a century, these expeditions were little concerned with Canada as a political entity; after all…
The History of Science of Canada
Canada as a Neo-Europe is a relatively recent construct, although the people of its first nations, the Indians and Inuit, have been here for some twelve thousand years, since the beginning of the retreat of the last ice sheets. Western science came in a limited way with the first European explorers; Samuel de Champlain left a mariner's astrolabe behind him. The Jesuits followed with their organization and educational institutions, and from the ei…
Science and Technology in Canadian History: A Bibliography of Primary Sources to 1914 . R. A. Richardson , B. H. MacDonald
Nature, Experiment, and the Sciences: Essays on Galileo and the History of Science in Honour of Stillman Drake
Coppermine
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access Felix Driver and Gillian Rose (eds.), Nature and Science: Essays in the History of Geographical Knowledge, Bristol: Historical Geography Research Series No. 28, 1992. Pp. vi + 28. N.p. ISBN 1-870074-10-6. TREVOR H. LEVERE TREVOR H. LEVERE University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 6, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages …
A History of Western Science . Anthony M. Alioto
Science and the Canadian Arctic: A Century of Exploration, 1818-1918
The Arctic: A History, by Richard Vaughan
This book has a number of notable features for readers interested in Arctic affairs.Chapter 3 is devoted entirely to the Arctic, while numerous Arctic examples throughout the book illustrate cooperation towards environmental protection.Without directly addressing the question, Chapter 3 raises important issues that are currently confronting Arctic policymakers as they seek to implement the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy and consider the…
Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain, Ideas in Context 27, by Richard Yeo
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