‘Only Connect’: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain. By William C. Lubenow. Boydell. 2015. x + 315pp. £50.00.

History ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 101 (348) ◽  
pp. 798-800
Author(s):  
MARTIN HEWITT
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Learned Societies

Science and Pseudoscience

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-104
Author(s):  
Frank L. Holt
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Sponsored Research ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
University Curricula ◽  
Industrial Revolutions

In the nineteenth century, political, social, and industrial revolutions shattered the class ceiling of Renaissance and early modern numismatics. Wealthy enthusiasts and dedicated academics from outside European aristocracy gained greater access to collectible coins and soon organized themselves into clubs and learned societies. They sponsored research journals, adopted new technologies such as photography, introduced new investigative methods such as the die study, and established numismatics as a scientific discipline with a foothold in university curricula. Yet, even as numismatics became more and more scientific in its aims and methods, old notions endured about coins and physiognomy. The rise of phrenology as a pseudoscience infiltrated the field and still undermines the historical value of some numismatic research. Another unfortunate development has been the estrangement of numismatics and archaeology because the latter now repudiates its antiquarian origins and generally denounces coin collecting as a form of looting.

scholarly journals German science in nineteenth-century Australian libraries

2015 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Wallace Kirsop
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Scientific Investigation ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
German States ◽  
German Science ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
University Leaders ◽  
Private Collections

Between Bligh’s disdain for Robert Townson’s books at the beginning of the century and C.W. Holgate’s 1886 commentary on the collections of the Melbourne Public Library, there is evidence of deficiencies in Australian holdings of materials derived from the German states and from the Austrian Empire. Consideration of private collections, of the roles played by individuals in developing research institutes, learned societies and community libraries and ultimately of the efforts made by university leaders to equip and enhance a culture of scientific investigation leads to the conclusion that the German or Prussian model was beginning to dominate by the turn of the twentieth century.

Preference in Paris

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-77
Author(s):  
Christina Luke
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
Economic Gain ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Paris Peace Conference

The pursuit of knowledge, cultural relations and diplomatic practice are discussed in this chapter in the context of the Treaty of Sèvres, the framing the League of Nations, and the role of early twentieth-century philanthropy and academia. The boundaries of where European and US scholars and businessmen penetrated Anatolia are defined as much by the lure of antiquity, recalling the vision of the Megali Idea, as by political posturing and economic gain embedded in the Wilsonian agenda. I trace the strategic diplomacy of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Learned Societies, and two members of the Princeton Expedition to Sardis, Howard Crosby Butler and William Hepburn Buckler, during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and the Turkish War of Independence. I argue that colonial networks writ large framed the nineteenth-century Western gaze of entitlement that underwrote duplicitous claims to Anatolian soil between 1919 and 1922.

scholarly journals Journals, learned societies and money: Philosophical Transactions , ca . 1750–1900

2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aileen Fyfe
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

This paper investigates the finances of the Royal Society and its Philosophical Transactions , showing that in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries journal publishing was a drain on funds rather than a source of income. Even without any expectation of profit, the costs of producing Transactions nevertheless had to be covered, and the way in which this was done reflected the changing financial situation of the Society. An examination of the Society's financial accounts and minute books reveals the tensions between the Society's desire to promote the widespread communication of natural knowledge, and the ever-increasing cost of doing so, particularly by the late nineteenth century.

Learned Societies, Institutions, Associations, and Clubs

2020 ◽  
pp. 208-226
Author(s):  
Jeremy Dibble
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Good ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
The State ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
The French Revolution

This chapter considers the ways in which music became the focus of organized bodies during the nineteenth century. One of the most significant outcomes of the French Revolution was the establishment of state institutions, and music was not immune from the secular mindset of utilité publique. State-financed “learned societies” and institutions, fueled by impulses of education, the public good, and most of all, a sense of prestige, became a national imperative, and music was an important part of the state-sponsored matrix. In a technologically innovative century which encouraged epistemological revolution, the need to share knowledge at all levels of society was inexorable. This is reflected in the proliferation of these “learned societies,” and how the need for differing organizational fora emerged throughout the century; the second part of this chapter focuses on how the concept of the “society” developed, with a particular emphasis on the nineteenth-century invention of musicology.

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