| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 291 pages) : illustrations |
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Science and culture in the nineteenth century |
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Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 British science in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A pioneer in the invention of wireless communication and later of radio broadcasting, he was foundational for twentieth-century media technology and a tireless communicator who wrote upon and debated many of the pressing interests of the day in the sciences and far beyond. Yet since his death, Lodge has been marginalized. By uncovering the many aspects of his life and career, and the changing dynamics of scientific authority in an era of specialization, contributors to this volume reveal how figures like Lodge fell out of view as technical experts came to dominate the public understanding of science in the second half of the twentieth century. They account for why he was so greatly cherished by many of his contemporaries, examine the reasons for his eclipse, and consider what Lodge, a century on, might teach us about taking a more integrated approach to key scientific controversies of the day |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 28, 2020) |
| Subject |
Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940.
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| SUBJECT |
Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940 fast |
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Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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SCIENCE -- General.
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Scientists
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mussell, James, editor.
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Gooday, Graeme, editor
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| ISBN |
9780822987314 |
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0822987317 |
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