James Bradley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785806 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Bradley |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Bradley |
| SIGNATURE | BRADLEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4960-3641 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Glass Trade Beads in the Northeast, and Including Aboriginal Bead Industries, by Gary L. Fogelman (1991)
The World’s Largest Landfill Is Empty
This article is a study of the first waste-by-rail landfill constructed in California. During the late 1980s, as Los Angeles County struggled with what was seen as an impending garbage crisis, waste officials began looking for a means to export household waste out of the county. In response, a company in Imperial County offered to take Los Angeles trash. Its plan involved converting a desert gold mine into the largest landfill in the world. While…
Robert Lee and his Undisciplined Medical Self
Robert Lee was a divisive figure who, for much of his professional life, mismanaged his reputation. In this article, I use a diary written between 1837 and 1873 to explore the part character played in Lee's fraught relationship with the medical profession. Special attention is paid to Lee's dual use of life writing. On the one hand, he was an avid reader of biographies, memoirs and obituaries, which he then recorded in his diary. On the other, hi…
Redefining a discovery
Charles Bell was famous for the discovery of the separate motor and sensory roots of the spinal and facial nerves, although in recent years his right to priority has been challenged by historians and scientists. But Charles Bell did discover something even if has not been accorded the status of a scientific fact. Between 1821 and 1823 he unveiled the 'respiratory nervous system', a distinct system of nerves that acted as the 'organ of the passion…
Beyond Hermeneutics
Bradley contends that the semiology of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), the founder of pragmatism, is a standing challenge as much to Gadamerian hermeneutics as to Saussure’s structuralism and its deconstructionist progeny. For Peirce physical matter itself is one specific mode of the activity of semiosis or sign interpretation. The paper outlines the central point and purpose of Peirce’s general metaphysics and describe the basic features of …
Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy
Collects the essays of James Bradley (1947–2012) for the first time, showcasing his speculative cosmology of the Trinity Reinvigorates the debate about the role and significance of speculative philosophy in the Anglo-American tradition Reveals the depth and breadth of Bradley’s philosophical thought Presented in chronological order, following the movement of Bradley’s thought Includes a preface by Peter Harris and a contextualising introduction b…
Evaluation of a tertiary sustainability experiential learning program
Purpose This paper aims to describe the development, promotion and evaluation of sustainability learning experience database (SLED), a university-curated database of sustainability experiences to augment formal student learning. Its purpose was to encourage students to participate in experiential learning, to facilitate students’ critical appraisal of programs ostensibly designed to create sustainability and to, thus, develop students’ sustainabi…
A Tale of Two Objects
This essay offers a biography of two Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT) machines: the Bini-Cerletti machine used for the very first shock treatments and now housed in the History of Medicine Museum, Rome; and a machine from Adelaide based upon H.M. Birch's original design and used to give the first shock treatments in Australia. In discussing these objects, I take a number of steps. Firstly, a short history of ECT introduces the major debates aroun…
Darwin's Delay
The suggestion that Darwin delayed publishing his species theory has\nlong occupied a central part of his biographical storyline. The notion of a fretful delay reached a melodramatic apogee in Adrian Desmond and James Moore’s best-selling 1991 biography. Janet Browne’s acclaimed work downplayed the pathos but depicted a somewhat hesitant Darwin. In 2007 John van Wyhe upended this tableau, arguing that there was no evidence to support a secretive,…
Carin Berkowitz, Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform
Charles Bell (1774–1842), Scottish surgeon and anatomist, is best known for two things: his alleged discovery of the motor and sensory roots of the spinal nerves, the priority of which was hotly disputed during his lifetime, and the palsy which bears his name. He has become something of an obscure figure, not least because his reputation has suffered severely due to revelations that he retrospectively altered his papers to make it seem he had ant…
Glass Beads from Champlain's Habitation on Saint Croix Island, Maine, 1604-1613
One of the earliest French attempts at settlement in northeastern North America occurred on a small island in the St. Croix River along the Maine/New Brunswick border. Built under the auspices of Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, and his young lieutenant, Samuel de Champlain, this settlement barely survived the winter of 1604-1605 and was abandoned the following summer. Given its clear historical association and brief occupation, the glass beads from …
The Colonel and the Slave Girls
In revisiting an earlier essay, “From Slavery to Servitude: The Australian Exile of Elizabeth, and Constance,” I explore the complex interplay between history, life writing, and the fragments of the past, uncovering what it is that we discover when we attempt to write subaltern lives or recover the subaltern voice. Because of the fragmentary nature of historical sources, as well as the separation between the historian and historical events, histo…
Research note
This paper describes the multidisciplinary project Founders and Survivors: Australian Life Courses in Historical Context. Individual life courses, families and generations through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are being reconstituted from a wide range of data including convict records; birth, death and marriage registrations; and World War I service records. The project will result in a longitudinal study of Australian settlement, the lo…
Time Period and Risk Measures in the General Risk Equation
In an earlier paper, a general risk equation, applicable to all non growth systems, and inclusive of financial systems, was derived. It related expected throughput capacity of any system to both system resources and positive risk of loss of throughput capacity. Two risk measures were required, a new MEL‐risk measure, and the conventional standard‐deviation risk measure. In this paper we show that the two apparently distinct risk measures are inti…
Flags of Our Fathers
Opportunity on the Edge of Orthodoxy
Following the lead of the Lancet's attacks in the 1840s, historians have considered hydropathy and hydropathists in Britain as part of fringe or heterodox medicine. Yet the distance between varieties of orthodox theory and practice and hydropathy was small, and many of the most prominent hydropathists held orthodox views and qualifications. Examining the educational backgrounds and careers of 40 early British hydropathists, the authors suggest th…
Representing Convicts
Part 1 Convict texts: problematic passages - Jack Bushman's narrative, Ian Duffield virtual reality, Toni Johnson-Woods Margaret Catchpole's first ride, Tina Picton Phillips from Keneally to Wertenbaker - sanitizing convicts, Ruth Brown. Part 2 Questioning the convict class: representing women, Deborah Oxley contumacious, ungovernable and incorrigible - women and workplace resistance, Van Diemen's land 1820-1839, Kirsty Reid a zone of silence - Q…
Religion, Revolution and English Radicalism
The MCC, society and empire
(1990). The MCC, society and empire: a portrait of cricket's ruling body, 1860–1914. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 3-22
Hegel in Britain
Economic Activity in Ireland. A Study of Two Open Economies
Journal Article Economic Activity in Ireland. A Study of Two Open Economies Get access Economic Activity in Ireland. A Study of Two Open Economies. Edited by N.J. Gibson and J. E. Spencer. (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1977. Pp. xxii + 272. £10.00.) James F. Bradley James F. Bradley The Queen's University Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 347, 1 September 1977, P…
The Future of Inter-Bloc Relations in Europe and East European Perspectives on European Security and Cooperation
Industrial location and economic potential in Western Europe
Clark C., Wilson F. and Bradley J. (1969) Industrial location and economic potential in Western Europe, Reg. Studies 3, 197–212. Economic potentials were calculated for Western Europe by taking regional incomes and costs of distance between all regions in order to measure each region's attraction for manufacturing industry under various sets of conditions. Separate centres of high potential were found before the Customs Union, but afterwards, a s…
Discovery of the Main Nutation of the Earth's Axis
Discovery of the Aberration of Light
Industrial location and economic potential in Western Europe
Clark C., Wilson F. and Bradley J. (1969) Industrial location and economic potential in Western Europe, Reg. Studies 3, 197–212. Economic potentials were calculated for Western Europe by taking regional incomes and costs of distance between all regions in order to measure each region's attraction for manufacturing industry under various sets of conditions. Separate centres of high potential were found before the Customs Union, but afterwards, a s…
The MCC, society and empire
(1990). The MCC, society and empire: a portrait of cricket's ruling body, 1860–1914. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 3-22
Darwin's Delay
The suggestion that Darwin delayed publishing his species theory has\nlong occupied a central part of his biographical storyline. The notion of a fretful delay reached a melodramatic apogee in Adrian Desmond and James Moore’s best-selling 1991 biography. Janet Browne’s acclaimed work downplayed the pathos but depicted a somewhat hesitant Darwin. In 2007 John van Wyhe upended this tableau, arguing that there was no evidence to support a secretive,…
Hegel in Britain
Research note
This paper describes the multidisciplinary project Founders and Survivors: Australian Life Courses in Historical Context. Individual life courses, families and generations through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are being reconstituted from a wide range of data including convict records; birth, death and marriage registrations; and World War I service records. The project will result in a longitudinal study of Australian settlement, the lo…
Economic Activity in Ireland. A Study of Two Open Economies
Journal Article Economic Activity in Ireland. A Study of Two Open Economies Get access Economic Activity in Ireland. A Study of Two Open Economies. Edited by N.J. Gibson and J. E. Spencer. (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1977. Pp. xxii + 272. £10.00.) James F. Bradley James F. Bradley The Queen's University Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 347, 1 September 1977, P…
The Colonel and the Slave Girls
In revisiting an earlier essay, “From Slavery to Servitude: The Australian Exile of Elizabeth, and Constance,” I explore the complex interplay between history, life writing, and the fragments of the past, uncovering what it is that we discover when we attempt to write subaltern lives or recover the subaltern voice. Because of the fragmentary nature of historical sources, as well as the separation between the historian and historical events, histo…
Discovery of the Aberration of Light
Discovery of the Aberration of Light
Discovery of the Main Nutation of the Earth's Axis
Industrial location and economic potential in Western Europe
Clark C., Wilson F. and Bradley J. (1969) Industrial location and economic potential in Western Europe, Reg. Studies 3, 197–212. Economic potentials were calculated for Western Europe by taking regional incomes and costs of distance between all regions in order to measure each region's attraction for manufacturing industry under various sets of conditions. Separate centres of high potential were found before the Customs Union, but afterwards, a s…
The Future of Inter-Bloc Relations in Europe and East European Perspectives on European Security and Cooperation
Economic Activity in Ireland. A Study of Two Open Economies
Journal Article Economic Activity in Ireland. A Study of Two Open Economies Get access Economic Activity in Ireland. A Study of Two Open Economies. Edited by N.J. Gibson and J. E. Spencer. (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1977. Pp. xxii + 272. £10.00.) James F. Bradley James F. Bradley The Queen's University Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 347, 1 September 1977, P…
Hegel in Britain
The MCC, society and empire
(1990). The MCC, society and empire: a portrait of cricket's ruling body, 1860–1914. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 3-22
Religion, Revolution and English Radicalism
Representing Convicts
Part 1 Convict texts: problematic passages - Jack Bushman's narrative, Ian Duffield virtual reality, Toni Johnson-Woods Margaret Catchpole's first ride, Tina Picton Phillips from Keneally to Wertenbaker - sanitizing convicts, Ruth Brown. Part 2 Questioning the convict class: representing women, Deborah Oxley contumacious, ungovernable and incorrigible - women and workplace resistance, Van Diemen's land 1820-1839, Kirsty Reid a zone of silence - Q…
Flags of Our Fathers
Opportunity on the Edge of Orthodoxy
Following the lead of the Lancet's attacks in the 1840s, historians have considered hydropathy and hydropathists in Britain as part of fringe or heterodox medicine. Yet the distance between varieties of orthodox theory and practice and hydropathy was small, and many of the most prominent hydropathists held orthodox views and qualifications. Examining the educational backgrounds and careers of 40 early British hydropathists, the authors suggest th…
Time Period and Risk Measures in the General Risk Equation
In an earlier paper, a general risk equation, applicable to all non growth systems, and inclusive of financial systems, was derived. It related expected throughput capacity of any system to both system resources and positive risk of loss of throughput capacity. Two risk measures were required, a new MEL‐risk measure, and the conventional standard‐deviation risk measure. In this paper we show that the two apparently distinct risk measures are inti…
Research note
This paper describes the multidisciplinary project Founders and Survivors: Australian Life Courses in Historical Context. Individual life courses, families and generations through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are being reconstituted from a wide range of data including convict records; birth, death and marriage registrations; and World War I service records. The project will result in a longitudinal study of Australian settlement, the lo…
The Colonel and the Slave Girls
In revisiting an earlier essay, “From Slavery to Servitude: The Australian Exile of Elizabeth, and Constance,” I explore the complex interplay between history, life writing, and the fragments of the past, uncovering what it is that we discover when we attempt to write subaltern lives or recover the subaltern voice. Because of the fragmentary nature of historical sources, as well as the separation between the historian and historical events, histo…
Glass Beads from Champlain's Habitation on Saint Croix Island, Maine, 1604-1613
One of the earliest French attempts at settlement in northeastern North America occurred on a small island in the St. Croix River along the Maine/New Brunswick border. Built under the auspices of Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, and his young lieutenant, Samuel de Champlain, this settlement barely survived the winter of 1604-1605 and was abandoned the following summer. Given its clear historical association and brief occupation, the glass beads from …
Carin Berkowitz, Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform
Charles Bell (1774–1842), Scottish surgeon and anatomist, is best known for two things: his alleged discovery of the motor and sensory roots of the spinal nerves, the priority of which was hotly disputed during his lifetime, and the palsy which bears his name. He has become something of an obscure figure, not least because his reputation has suffered severely due to revelations that he retrospectively altered his papers to make it seem he had ant…
Darwin's Delay
The suggestion that Darwin delayed publishing his species theory has\nlong occupied a central part of his biographical storyline. The notion of a fretful delay reached a melodramatic apogee in Adrian Desmond and James Moore’s best-selling 1991 biography. Janet Browne’s acclaimed work downplayed the pathos but depicted a somewhat hesitant Darwin. In 2007 John van Wyhe upended this tableau, arguing that there was no evidence to support a secretive,…
Evaluation of a tertiary sustainability experiential learning program
Purpose This paper aims to describe the development, promotion and evaluation of sustainability learning experience database (SLED), a university-curated database of sustainability experiences to augment formal student learning. Its purpose was to encourage students to participate in experiential learning, to facilitate students’ critical appraisal of programs ostensibly designed to create sustainability and to, thus, develop students’ sustainabi…
A Tale of Two Objects
This essay offers a biography of two Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT) machines: the Bini-Cerletti machine used for the very first shock treatments and now housed in the History of Medicine Museum, Rome; and a machine from Adelaide based upon H.M. Birch's original design and used to give the first shock treatments in Australia. In discussing these objects, I take a number of steps. Firstly, a short history of ECT introduces the major debates aroun…
Beyond Hermeneutics
Bradley contends that the semiology of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), the founder of pragmatism, is a standing challenge as much to Gadamerian hermeneutics as to Saussure’s structuralism and its deconstructionist progeny. For Peirce physical matter itself is one specific mode of the activity of semiosis or sign interpretation. The paper outlines the central point and purpose of Peirce’s general metaphysics and describe the basic features of …
Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy
Collects the essays of James Bradley (1947–2012) for the first time, showcasing his speculative cosmology of the Trinity Reinvigorates the debate about the role and significance of speculative philosophy in the Anglo-American tradition Reveals the depth and breadth of Bradley’s philosophical thought Presented in chronological order, following the movement of Bradley’s thought Includes a preface by Peter Harris and a contextualising introduction b…
Robert Lee and his Undisciplined Medical Self
Robert Lee was a divisive figure who, for much of his professional life, mismanaged his reputation. In this article, I use a diary written between 1837 and 1873 to explore the part character played in Lee's fraught relationship with the medical profession. Special attention is paid to Lee's dual use of life writing. On the one hand, he was an avid reader of biographies, memoirs and obituaries, which he then recorded in his diary. On the other, hi…
Redefining a discovery
Charles Bell was famous for the discovery of the separate motor and sensory roots of the spinal and facial nerves, although in recent years his right to priority has been challenged by historians and scientists. But Charles Bell did discover something even if has not been accorded the status of a scientific fact. Between 1821 and 1823 he unveiled the 'respiratory nervous system', a distinct system of nerves that acted as the 'organ of the passion…
Glass Trade Beads in the Northeast, and Including Aboriginal Bead Industries, by Gary L. Fogelman (1991)
The World’s Largest Landfill Is Empty
This article is a study of the first waste-by-rail landfill constructed in California. During the late 1980s, as Los Angeles County struggled with what was seen as an impending garbage crisis, waste officials began looking for a means to export household waste out of the county. In response, a company in Imperial County offered to take Los Angeles trash. Its plan involved converting a desert gold mine into the largest landfill in the world. While…
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