Hargittai, István (Author)
Hargittai, Magdolna (Author)
This book introduces the reader to the statues, busts, and memorial plaques of scientists, explorers, medicine men and women, and inventors found in the bustling capital of the United Kingdom, London. The former capital of the British Empire, London remains a world center of trade, navigation, finance and many more. It is also a hub of science, the seat of the Royal Society, Royal Institution, Science Museum, British Museum, Natural History Museum, and of great institutions of higher education. The historical figures depicted in these memorials are responsible for creating great institutions, milestone discoveries, contributions to the scientific and technological revolutions, fighting against epidemics, advancing medicine, and contributing to the progress seen during the past four hundred years. This is a guidebook for the visitor and the Londoner alike. It presents memorials that everybody is familiar with and others that the authors discovered during their years of painstaking research. The 750 images and the text, interlarded with anecdotes, is both informative and entertaining.
...MoreReview James L. Marshall (2022) Review of "Science in London: A Guide to Memorials". Bulletin for the History of Chemistry (pp. 328-330).
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Dupree, Marguerite Wright;
(2013)
From Mourning to Scientific Legacy: Commemorating Lister in London and Scotland
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Sumartojo, Shanti;
(2014)
“Dazzling Relief”: Floodlighting and National Affective Atmospheres on VE Day 1945
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Dupree, Marguerite Wright;
(2013)
From Mourning to Scientific Legacy: Commemorating Lister in London and Scotland
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Fasol-Boltzmann, I. M.;
Fasol, Gerhard;
(2006)
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844--1906): Zum hundertsten Todestag
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Marcus P. Adams;
Zvi Biener;
Uljana Feest;
Jacqueline A. Sullivan;
(2017)
Eppur si muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Peter Machamer
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James, Frank A. J. L.;
(2008)
The Janus Face of Modernity: Michael Faraday in the Twentieth Century
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Liba Taub;
(2019)
Celebrating Science in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Paolo Brenni;
(2019)
Prizes, Medals and Honourable Mentions: How Instrument Makers Were Rewarded at 19th-Century Exhibitions
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Kjærgaard, Peter C.;
(2010)
The Darwin Enterprise: From Scientific Icon to Global Product
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Kolchinsky, E. I.;
(2009)
The Darwin Jubilee in England
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Gay, Hannah;
(2008)
Technical Assistance in the World of London Science, 1850--1900
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Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin;
(2019)
‘A Place of Great Trust to Be Supplied by Men of Skill and Integrity’: Assayers and Knowledge Cultures in Late Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century London
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Mussell, James;
(2006)
“This is Ours and for Us”: “The Mechanic's Magazine” and Low Scientific Culture in Regency London
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Noah Moxham;
(2019)
Natural Knowledge, Inc.: The Royal Society as a Metropolitan Corporation
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Harkness, Deborah E.;
(2007)
The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
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Anna Winterbottom;
(2019)
An Experimental Community: The East India Company in London, 1600–1800
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Murray, Narisara;
(2004)
Lives of the Zoo: Charismatic Animals in the Social Worlds of the Zoological Gardens of London, 1850--1897
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Philip Beeley;
(2019)
Practical Mathematicians and Mathematical Practice in Later Seventeenth-Century London
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Alexandra Hill;
(2018)
Lost Books and Printing in London, 1557–1640. An Analysis of the Stationersʼ Company Register
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Lightman, Bernard;
(2011)
Refashioning the Spaces of London Science: Elite Epistemes in the Nineteenth Century
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