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  • ‘The sceptre of her pow'r’: nymphs, nobility, and nomenclature in early Victorian science

  • DONALD L. OPITZ
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 47 / Issue 1 / March 2014
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 June 2013, pp. 67-94
    Print publication:
    March 2014

  • Only weeks following Queen Victoria's ascension to the throne on 20 June 1837, a controversy brewed over the naming of the ‘vegetable wonder’ known today as Victoria amazonica (Sowerby). This gargantuan lily was encountered by the Royal Geographical Society's explorer Robert Schomburgk in British Guyana on New Year's Day, 1837. Following Schomburgk's wishes, metropolitan naturalists sought Victoria's pleasure in naming the flower after her, but the involvement of multiple agents and obfuscation of their actions resulted in two royal names for the lily: Victoria regina (Gray) and Victoria regia (Lindley). To resolve the duplicity in names, the protagonists, John Edward Gray and John Lindley, made priority claims for their respective names, ultimately founding their authorities on conventions aligned with gentlemanly manners and deference to nobility. This article will analyse the controversy, hitherto unexamined by historians, and argue for its significance in repositioning Queen Victoria – and nobility generally – as central agents in the making of authority in early Victorian science.

Never at Rest
  • A Biography of Isaac Newton
  • Richard S. Westfall
  • Published online:
    05 June 2013
    Print publication:
    31 January 1981
  • This richly detailed 1981 biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the theologian, and the public figure. Professor Westfall treats all aspects of Newton's career, but his account centres on a full description of Newton's achievements in science. Thus the core of the work describes the development of the calculus, the experimentation that altered the direction of the science of optics, and especially the investigations in celestial dynamics that led to the law of universal gravitation.

  • BJH volume 46 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 46 / Issue 2 / June 2013
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    13 May 2013, pp. b1-b6
    Print publication:
    June 2013
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  • BJH volume 46 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 46 / Issue 2 / June 2013
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    13 May 2013, pp. f1-f2
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    June 2013
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The Life Story of the Late Sir Charles Tilston Bright, Civil Engineer
  • With Which is Incorporated the Story of the Atlantic Cable, and the First Telegraph to India and the Colonies
  • Volume 2
  • Edward Brailsford Bright, Charles Bright
  • Published online:
    05 May 2013
    Print publication:
    05 July 2012
    First published in:
    1898
  • Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832–88) was a renowned telegraph engineer, best known for his role in laying the first successful transatlantic cable in 1858, for which he was knighted. Bright later worked on the telegraph networks that would span not only the British Empire but the entire globe. Written by his brother Edward Brailsford Bright (1831–1913) and son Charles (1863–1937), both telegraph engineers who worked alongside him, this two-volume biography, first published in 1898, would do much to cement Bright's reputation as an electrical engineer, providing an insider account of telegraphy's formative years. Volume 2 traces Bright's work on the burgeoning telegraph network, laying imperial cables to the Mediterranean, India, the West Indies, and further afield. Bright's significant contributions to the field of electrical engineering are also acknowledged in these pages, along with his personal qualities and political pursuits.

Lightning Conductors and Lightning Guards
  • A Treatise on the Protection of Buildings, of Telegraph Instruments and Submarine Cables, and of Electrical Installations Generally, from Damage by Atmospheric Discharges
  • Oliver Lodge
  • Published online:
    05 May 2013
    Print publication:
    16 August 2012
    First published in:
    1892
  • As a result of being asked to give public lectures on the subject, the eminent physicist Oliver Lodge (1851–1940) published in 1892 a pioneering study of the protection of buildings, cables and telegraphic instruments from the devastation caused by lightning strikes. This work led him almost immediately to the discovery of electromagnetic wave transmission and ultimately to the development of a version of radio telegraphy. Lodge also saw that many of the current theories about the nature of lightning were seriously in error, and his investigations led to a number of significant changes in the design of lightning conductors and lightning guards. Some of the methods and procedures that Lodge advocated have since become standard practice. They are described with Lodge's characteristic flair and accompanied by a wealth of illustrations that give a fascinating insight into how contemporary scientists and engineers tackled this significant problem.

The Life Story of the Late Sir Charles Tilston Bright, Civil Engineer
  • With Which is Incorporated the Story of the Atlantic Cable, and the First Telegraph to India and the Colonies
  • Volume 1
  • Edward Brailsford Bright, Charles Bright
  • Published online:
    05 May 2013
    Print publication:
    05 July 2012
    First published in:
    1898
  • Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832–88) was a renowned telegraph engineer, best known for his role in laying the first successful transatlantic cable in 1858, for which he was knighted. Bright later worked on the telegraph networks that would span not only the British Empire but the entire globe. Written by his brother Edward Brailsford Bright (1831–1913) and son Charles (1863–1937), both telegraph engineers who worked alongside him, this two-volume biography, first published in 1898, would do much to cement Bright's reputation as an electrical engineer, providing an insider account of telegraphy's formative years. Volume 1 traces Bright's career as an early employee of the world's first public telegraphy company, the Electric Telegraph Company, and his work on land and submarine cable telegraphy, culminating in the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cables in the mid-nineteenth century.

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