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Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41966-6 — the Victorian Palace of Science Edward J Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41966-6 — The Victorian Palace of Science Edward J. Gillin Index More Information Index A Geological Manual,94 Albemarle Street, 68 A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Albert, Prince, 160, 195 Natural philosophy,4 anti slavery, 158 A rudimentary treatise on clock and at the British Association, 68 watchmaking, 245 Michael Faraday, 184 Aberdeen, University of, 29 Alison, Archibald, 50–52 abolition of slavery, 3, 91, 158 on architecture, 51, 52 Acland, Thomas, 198 on Parliament, 51 acoustics, 30, 31, 56, 58, 59, 84, 140, 143 on utility, 52 Adams, Robert, 116, 117 political views, 51 Admiralty, 224 All Saint’s Church, Babbacombe, 120 Airy, George Biddell, 203, 216, 218, 220, All Souls College, Oxford, 95 232, 233, 238, 244, 252, 253, 256, An Introduction to the Study of Chemical 262, 263, 267, 268, 271 Philosophy,99 accuracy, 214, 224, 225, 237 Anderson, John Wilson, 131, 132 as Astronomer Royal, 221–23 Anglican, 6, 244 at Cambridge, 220 architecture, 109 at Greenwich, 216, 217, 221–23, 224, Broad Church, 6 225, 231 Cornwall, 188 authority over Edward John Dent, 250–51 geology, 107 career, 220 governance, 51 compass deviation, 221 High Church, 47, 106 dispute with Benjamin Vulliamy, 234–38 John Frederic Daniell, 99 Edmund Beckett Denison, 216 science, 5 Edward John Dent, 219, 225–26, 237 theology, 4 galvanic regulation, 217 universities, 125 galvanic time system, 227, 228–32, Anning, Mary, 91 238–44, 252, 253, 258 Ansted, David, 266 Greenwich time, 217 Anston stone, 102, 115, 117, 118, 265, Greenwich time system, 227–28 266, 267 horology, 224, 225, 226, 236 Architectural Magazine, 36, 49 mathematics, 221 architecture Parliament time, 214, 215, 216, 228–32, debates over Parliament, 48–52 238–44, 245–52 debates over style, 35–38, 42–47 plans for Greenwich control rejected, 259 in the history of science, 16 reports on the Westminster clock, 256 patronage, 27 role after 1853, 252 profession in the 1830s, 60–63 wave theory of light, 201, 202 regency, 26 Westminster clock, 214, 216, 219–20, science of, 87, 88, 103, 105, 112, 114, 223–24, 227, 228–32, 234–38, 245–52 115, 118 work with Edmund Beckett Denison, Argand lamp, 188, 189, 198 245–52 Arnott, Neil, 130, 137, 155, 156, 157, 197 307 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41966-6 — The Victorian Palace of Science Edward J. Gillin Index More Information 308 Index Ashmolean Museum, 107 Gothic, 50, 65 Aspin, Philip, 22 Henry Brougham, 172 Astronomical Society, 235 Joseph Gwilt, 167 astronomy, 21, 46, 78, 223, 224, 226, 227, Joseph Hume, 59 231, 237, 243, 245, 263 lighting, 181, 186, 205 atheism, 4 mathematics, 82 Athenaeum club, 30 mechanics, 78–85 Atlantic telegraph, 238 Michael Faraday, 84–85, 162, 177, Atonement, 133 193, 213 Author of Nature, 127, 128, 136 on Christopher Wren, 78 automaton, 75 on Vitruvius, 79–80 orchestrates the press, 169 Babbage, Charles, 220 Parliament clocks, 241 Bacon, Francis, 50, 141, 142 Parliament stone survey, 90–91, Baconian science, 70, 141 92–93, 119 Bagehot, Walter, 20 professionalism, 61, 63, 83, 200 Baird, John, 130 roof tiles, 80 Bakerian Lectures, 141 Royal Institute of British Architects, 69 Balliol College, Oxford, 120 Royal Institution, 68 Ballysimon quarries, 116 science, 55, 65, 67, 68, 69, 78–85, 161, Bank of England, 223 176, 180, 181, 192 Banks, Joseph, 6 scientific associates, 68 Barry, Alfred, 67, 69, 78, 84 stone, 80 Barry, Charles, 2, 10, 14, 22, 28, 49, 50, 53, stone sample controversy, 112–15 54, 55, 56, 57, 60, 63–69, 74, 78, 85, sympathy in The Times, 174 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 97, 98, 103, 105, trustworthy, 180 112, 116, 117, 118, 121, 125, 149, use of iron, 80–83 182, 183, 187, 205, 255, 265, 266, use of wood, 80 271 ventilation, 165–82 appointment, 52 Westminster clock, 219, 234, 236, 237, architectural tour, 62 241, 252, 260 at the British Association, 68 Whig connections, 56 Augustus Pugin, 65 William Whewell, 86 authority, 162, 176 Barry, Edward Middleton, 266 biography, 63 Bath stone, 58 cement, 80 batteries, 231, 233, 239, 242, 243 central ventilation tower, 163 Bebbington, David, 133 Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 59 Belgian Gothic architecture, 65 chemistry, 78–85, 97, 99, 179 Bell, George Joseph, 130 chooses stone for Parliament, 102 Bentham, Jeremy, 29, 32, 36, 155 clock tower, 219 Benthamite, 155, 197 criticism of designs, 37, 42–43, 46–47, 57 Bible, 21, 47, 107, 133 David Boswell Reid, 162, 163, ‘Big Ben’, 256, 260, 262, 267, 268 165–82, 205 Birkbeck, George, 146, 147, 200 death, 68, 84, 265 Birkbeck’s London Mechanics’ debates over his appointment, 56–59 Institute, 142 designs for Parliament, 28 Birmingham Edward Cust, 27 Great Reform Act, 33 engineering, 67, 181 meeting of the British Association, 104 experiment, 89 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine,50 fire proofing, 166 Blore, Edward, 31 genius, 58 Board of Woods and Forests, 112, 116 geological knowledge, 100, Board of Works, 255, 266 103, 111 George Biddell Airy advises, 252, Goldsworthy Gurney, 169, 192 256, 258 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41966-6 — The Victorian Palace of Science Edward J. Gillin Index More Information Index 309 John Manners, 181 Birkbeck’s Mechanics’ Institute, 142 Westminster clock, 235 Charles Barry, 42, 172, 176 Bolsover Moor, 100, 102 complains about David Boswell Reid’s Bolsover stone, 101, 102 ventilation, 172 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 43 David Boswell Reid, 141, 143, 176 Bord, Joe, 22, 38, 39 David Brewster, 202 Bow bell, 256 Dugald Stewart, 39, 41 Boyle, Robert, 44 Edinburgh University, 41 Brande, William Thomas, 146, 147, 200 experimental commitment, 176, Brewster, David, 190, 192, 203, 204, 208, 177, 236 212, 213 George Canning, 41 Calvinistic science, 202, 203 Gothic, 42 credibility, 205 hypothesis, 41, 141, 202, 236 David Boswell Reid, 161, 177 material improvement, 142 dispute with William Whewell, 176, 203 on Parliament’s architecture, 42–43 Edinburgh science, 125, 191, 200 optics, 202, 206 experimental approach, 202 political science, 42 hypothesis, 141, 202 science, 41, 141–42, 192 kaleidoscope, 203 SDUK, 142 lighting in Parliament, 200, 204–6 trapped in an air pump, 172 on the Bude light, 204 Westminster clock, 236, 237 optical experiments in Parliament, 204 Whig natural philosophy, 39–42 optics, 185, 186, 201–2, 204, 205 William Richard Hamilton, 43, 46 Bridgewater Treatises, 136 Brown, Thomas, 180 Bridgewater, Earl of, 136 Bruce, Thomas. See Elgin, Earl of Brighton Pavilion, 82 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 1, 13, British Association for the Advancement of 145, 240 Science, 6, 18, 115 Brunel, Marc Isambard, 145, 160 Birmingham meeting, 160 Brunel, Sophia MacNamara, 145 Cambridge meeting, 202 Buchanan, Alexandrina, 74 Charles Barry, 68, 69, 85, 103 Buckingham Palace, 26, 27, 59, 82, 178 David Brewster, 202, 203 Buckland, William, 92, 106, 107, 109, 110 Dublin meeting, 160 Bude Light, 184, 198, 209, 213, 265 Edinburgh meeting, 140, 142, 143, as political analogy, 186, 209–12 161, 176 dangerous, 194 Edward John Dent, 225 David Brewster, 204 formation, 6 experimental trials, 189, 207, 208 Henry Brougham, 202 in Parliament, 186, 192, 193, 194, 197, Newcastle meeting, 94, 103, 160 200, 208, 212 Oxford meeting, 104 lighthouses, 188 Plymouth meeting, 159, 160 Michael Faraday supports, 196, 197 politics, 6 Trinity House, 188, 191, 193 Section A, 18 Burrow, John, 39, 42 Section E, 160 Burton, Decimus, 30, 31 sections, 18 Butterfield, William, 49, 120 William Smith, 104 York meeting, 6, 93, 160 Caen stone, 58, 115, 119 British Galvanization of Metals Caledonian Mercury, 143 Company, 80 Calvinism, 134, 202, 203 British Geological Survey, 92, 93, 94, Cambridge 111, 266 meeting of the British Association, 202 British Museum, 23, 44, 82 Cambridge Hellenists, 47 Brougham, Henry, 42, 50, 52, 145, 146, Cambridge Philosophical Society, 74, 191, 192, 202 224, 247 at the British Association, 140 Cambridge University Observatory, 220 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41966-6 — The Victorian Palace of Science Edward J. Gillin Index More Information 310 Index Cambridge, University of, 73, 92, 235 Combe, George, 4, 126, 133 Anglican bastion, 125 common sense philosophy, 39 Charles Kelsall, 48 Company of Clockmakers of the City of mathematics, 70, 201, 203, 213 London, 235, 236, 238, 240 mechanics, 74 Conrad, Joseph, 221, 263, 264 men of science, 201 Conservative St John’s College, 43 asthmatics, 47 tripos examinations, 247 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine,50 William Whewell, 44, 55 British Association membership, 6 Campbell, John, 141, 142, 161, 172, government, 25, 27, 209, 219, 176, 179 267, 268 Canning, Charles, 219, 220, 223, 225, on Parliament, 20 227, 234 on the Gothic, 50 Canning, George, 41, 219 Quarterly Review,50 carbonometer, 151 Robert Peel, 210 Carlton club, 25 satire, 209 Carlyle, Thomas, 20 The Times, 174, 183 Castle Howard, 95 William Whewell, 70 Catholic Church. See Roman Catholic Corinthian, 45 Chadwick, Edwin, 29, 155, 267 Corn Laws, 3 Chalmers, Thomas, 124, 133–36, 140 Cornwall, 85, 92, 187, 188, 191, 207 David Boswell Reid, 137–38 Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 106 Chamber of Deputies, 31 corpuscular theory, 201, 202 Channel telegraph, 238, 239 Cotton Garden, 152 Chapman, Allan, 223 Covent Garden Theatre, 147 Chartist, 3 Cowper, William Francis, 266 chemistry, 1, 17, 18, 39, 41, 109, 115, 121, Creation, 107, 108, 109, 137 123, 139, 144, 145, 146, 147, 153, credibility 158, 159, 160, 161, 168, 169, 177,
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