Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

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ISBN: 9781846822919 | 1846822912
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Copyright: 3/24/2011

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This volume, exploring the worlds of science and technology in 19th-century Ireland and emanating from the 2009 Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland Conference, offers fascinating perspectives from science, literature, history, and archaeology.

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Acknowledgments	p. 7
List of Illustrations	p. 8
List of Abbreviations	p. 9
List of Contributors	p. 10
Introduction	p. 11
Innovations
The Irish response to Darwinism	p. 18
Asserting medical identities in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland: the case of the water cure in Cork	p. 32
Grubbs of Dublin: telescope makers to the world	p. 47
Representing the imagination: a topographical history of Dublin's Monto from Ordnance Survey maps and related materials	p. 62
Individuals
A microscopic look at Mary Ward: gender, science and religion in nineteenth-century Ireland	p. 83
'Pilf'ring from the first creation': Dáibhí de Barra's Parliament of weavers	p. 94
Dominick McCausland and Adam's ancestors: an Irish evangelical responds to the scientific challenge to biblical inerrancy	p. 113
Institutions
The Irish-Catholics-in-science debate: John Tyndall, Cardinal Cullen and the uses of science at Castleknock College in the nineteenth century	p. 127
æA pure school of science': the Royal College of Science for Ireland and scientific education in Victorian Ireland	p. 136
Practical science and religious politics: the Glasnevin botanic gardens Sunday opening controversy, 1861	p. 150
The learned gendemen are in town: the British Association meeting of 1857 in Dublin's popular press	p. 162
Index	p. 177
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