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A pioneer of connection : recovering the life and work of Oliver Lodge /
Sir Oliver Lodge was a polymathic scientific figure who linked the Victorian Age with the Second World War, a reassuring figure of continuity across his long life and career. A physicist and spiritualist, inventor and educator, author and authority, he was one of the most famous public figures of Br...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Oliver Lodge : continuity and communication / James Mussell and Graeme Gooday
- Communication, (dis)continuities, and cultural contestation in Sir Oliver Lodge's past years / David Amigoni
- Becoming Sir Oliver Lodge : the Liverpool years, 1881-1900 / Peter Rowlands
- Lodge in Birmingham : pure and applied science in the new university, 1900-1914 / Di Drummond
- The alternative path : Oliver Lodge's lightning lectures and the discovery of electromagnetic waves / Bruce J. Hunt
- Lodge and mathematics : counting beans, the meaning of symbols, and Einstein's blindfold / Matthew Stanley
- The retiring popularizer : lodge, cosmic evolution, and the new physics / Bernard Lightman
- The forgotten celebrity of modern physics / Imogen Clarke
- Glorifying mechanism : Oliver Lodge and the problems of ether, mind, and matter / Richard Noakes
- The case of Fletcher : shell shock, spiritualism, and Oliver Lodge's Raymond / Christine Ferguson
- Beyond Raymond : the theology of spiritualism and the changing landscape of the afterlife in the Church of England / Georgina Byrne
- Oliver Lodge's ether and the birth of British Broadcasting / David Hendy
- "Body separates: spirit unites" : Oliver Lodge and the mediating body / James Mussell.