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The Victorian palace of science : scientific knowledge and the building of the Houses of Parliament /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gillin, Edward John, 1990
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Science in history
Subjects:
Barry, Charles, > 1795-1860
Westminster Palace London, England
Architecture and science > England > London
Science > Great Britain > History > 19th century
Westminster London, England > Buildings, structures, etc
London England > Buildings, structures, etc
Carrier Form: xiv, 325 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-306) and index.
ISBN: 9781108419666 (hardback) :
1108419666 (hardback)
Index Number: DA687
CLC: K956.17
TU-095.61
Call Number: TU-095.61/G481
Contents: A radical building: the science of politics and the new Palace of Westminster -- Architecture and knowledge: Charles Barry and the world of mid-nineteenth-century science -- 'The Science of Architecture': making geological knowledge for the Houses of Parliament -- Chemistry in the Commons: Edinburgh science and David Boswell Reid's ventilating of Parliament, 1834-1854 -- Enlightening Parliament: the Bude Light in the House of Commons and the illumination of politics -- Order in Parliament: George Biddell Airy and the construction of time at Westminster.

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