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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
How Nuclear Transplantation Changed Science and Society By Nathan Crowe
Illuminates the importance of the early history of cloning for the biosciences and their institutional, disciplinary, and intellectual contexts. Long before scientists cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, American developmental biologist Robert Briggs successfully performed the technique of nuclear transplantation by cloning frog nuclei in 1952. Although the history of cloning is often associated with contemporary ethical controversies, The Forgotten Clones revisits the influential work of scientists like Briggs, Thomas King, and Marie DiBerardino, before the possibility of human cloning and its ethical implications first registered as a concern in public consciousness.
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SCIENCE, VALUES, AND THE PUBLIC | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS Hardback • 9780822946274 • December 2021 • £49.00 296 pages
Composition and Big Data
Edited by Amanda Licastro and Benjamin M. Miller
This book interprets and implements the drive toward data in diverse ways. Everything is data. And as large-scale aggregation and computational analysis of data become more common and manageable, it becomes more important to rhetoric and composition. Bringing together a range of scholars, teachers, and administrators working with big-data methods and datasets to kickstart a collective reckoning with the role that algorithmic and computational approaches can, or should, play in research and teaching in the field.
COMPOSITION, LITERACY, AND CULTURE | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS Hardback • 9780822946748 • September 2021 • £38.00 272 pages • 75 b/w illus.
The Trinity Circle
Anxiety, Intelligence, and Knowledge Creation in Nineteenth-Century England By William J. Ashworth (University of Liverpool, UK)
Explores science and religion at a time when new ways of thinking threatened to divide England. Explores the creation of knowledge in nineteenth-century England, when any notion of a recognisably modern science was still nearly a century off, and religion still infused all ways of elite knowing. The rise of capitalism during this period was, according to Anglican critics, undermining this spiritual world and challenging it with a superficial material one. By focusing on the Trinity College circle, the author details an ongoing struggle between the Established Church and a quest for change to the prevailing social hierarchy.
SCI & CULTURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS Hardback • 9780822946878 • September 2021 • £41.50 296 pages
The Voice of Science, British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America
By Diarmid A. Finnegan (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
Examines five nineteenth-century British celebrity scientists and their lectures. For many in the nineteenth century, the spoken word had power that exceeded other modes of communication. This conviction helped to sustain a diverse and dynamic lecture culture that provided a crucial vehicle for shaping and contesting cultural norms and beliefs. This book explores the efforts of five celebrity British Scientists—John Tyndall, Thomas Henry Huxley, Richard Proctor, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Henry Drummond—to articulate and embody a moral vision of the scientific life on American lecture platforms.
SCI & CULTURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS Hardback • 9780822946816 • October 2021 • £43.50 336 pages
Symbols and Things
Mathematics in the Age of Steam By Kevin Lambert (Mercuria Energy, Geneva)
An exploration of things and equipment used by eighteenth–and ninteenth–century mathematicians. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of mathematicians came to depend on far more than the properties of number. Each chapter of this book explores a thing, or assembling of things, needed by mathematicians to do their work—whether a textbook, museum, journal, library, diagram, notebook, or letter—all characteristic of the mid-nineteenth-century British taskscape, but also representative of great change to a discipline brought about by an industrialised world in motion.
SCI & CULTURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS Hardback • 9780822946830 • October 2021 • £49.00 312 pages
Ingenuity in the Making
Materials and Technique in Early Modern Art and Science Edited by Richard J. Oosterhoff (University of Edinburgh, UK), José Ramón Marcaida (University of St Andrews, UK) and Alexander Marr
Explores how ingenuity shaped experience, discourse and conceptualisation of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. The book considers subjects such as spirited matter, the conceits of nature, and crafty devices, investigating the ways in which wit acted in and upon the material world through skill and technique. Contributors ask how ingenuity informed the “maker’s knowledge” tradition, where the perilous borderline between the genius of invention and disingenuous fraud was drawn, and what were the ambitions of material ingenuity in a rapidly globalizing world.
