London in Modern Times

London in Modern Times
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2023-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist

Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist
Author: Anna Marie Roos
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2011-07-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9004209565

This first full-length biography of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712), vice-president of the Royal Society, Royal Physician, and the first arachnologist and conchologist, provides an unprecedented picture of a seventeenth-century virtuoso. Lister is recognized for his discovery of ballooning spiders and as the father of conchology, but it is less well known that he invented the histogram, provided Newton with alloys, and donated the first significant natural history collections to the Ashmolean Museum. Just as Lister was the first to make a systematic study of spiders and their webs, this biography is the first to analyze the significant webs of knowledge, patronage, and familial and gender relationships that governed his life as a scientist and physician.

An Indolent and Blundering Art?

An Indolent and Blundering Art?
Author: Emma Chambers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2018-08-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0429852827

First published in 1999, Chambers explores English etching changed that radically during the nineteenth century. This book looks into the freedom and directness of the etching process became a key plank in a sustained attempt to raise the status of etching in Britain spearheaded by artists such as Francis Seymour Haden and James McNeill Whistler and members of the Etching Club. An Indolent and Blundering Art? Opens with a description of the use of language and art criticism to redefine etching

Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century

Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Marie Mulvey-Roberts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1996-10-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1349249629

What were the sources of pleasure during the eighteenth century? The range of pleasurable activities from the bawdy and perverse to the refined are brought together in this collection of essays, which is the first to look at both the philosophy and practice of the pleasure-seeking Georgians. Experts on the arts of pleasure will luxuriate over Italian opera, gastronomic delights, the pleasures of Gothic terror, seduction, and the revellers of the bizarre London clubs.