Article ID: CBB911983578

Bricks and Antiquarianism: Masonry and Historical Method in the Historical Sciences (2020)

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The role of sentiment in narratives generated by antiquarians, dilettanti and geologists in late eighteenth-century Britain features as a significant force in the development of the historical sciences. During the fieldwork for and subsequent publication of The Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca (1807), by Sir William Gell (1777-1836), and A Description of the Principal Picturesque Beauties, Antiquities and Geological Phenomena of the Isle of Wight (1816), by his colleague Sir Henry Charles Englefield (c.1752-1822), the role of association and sentiment makes visible the ruins of everyday-type architectures and geological processes, and demonstrates tensions between human-made and natural artefacts.

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Authors & Contributors
Beard, Mary
Buckland, Adelene
Chakrabarti, Pratik
Ciancio, Luca
Gierl, Martin
Gillispie, Charles Coulston
Journals
History of Science
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Nineteenth-Century Contexts
Publishers
Oxford University Press
University of Chicago Press
Columbia University
New York University
Edifir Edizioni
Frommann-Holzboog
Concepts
History as a discipline; chronology; study of the past
Geology
Archaeology
Antiquarianism
Historical method
Narratology
People
Gatterer, Johann Christoph
Greenough, George Bellas
Horner, Leonard
Kant, Immanuel
Lyell, Charles
MacCulloch, John
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
Enlightenment
Places
Great Britain
Europe
India
Rome (Italy)
Egypt
Germany
Institutions
Crystal Palace
Royal Society of London
British Museum
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