scholarly journals John Banks: an independent and itinerant lecturer of natural and experimental philosophy at the threshold of the English industrial revolution

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Luiz Carlos Soares
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Experimental Philosophy ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Experimental Science ◽  
Specialized Knowledge ◽  
Industrial Transformation ◽  
Newtonian Physics ◽  
The World ◽  
Mechanical Physics ◽  
English Industrial Revolution

In eighteenth-century England, courses of natural and experimental philosophy delivered by independent and/or itinerant lecturers, whose textbooks and syllabi were based on Newtonian physics, became the main instruments for spreading and popularizing the idea of applied science. This effectively represented the application of the results of scientific knowledge to the population’s needs and to the production of the material components of life. Thus, the activities of independent and/or itinerant lecturers, with their courses and publications, helped to spread knowledge on the principles of mechanical and experimental science among the men who became protagonists of their country’s transformation into the first industrial power in the world. One among those lecturers was John Banks (1740–1805), who offered courses and specialized knowledge on mechanical physics and machinery to many manufacturers, engineers and mechanics, who stood at the forefront of England’s industrial transformation and was himself one of the main intellectual exponents of this process.

scholarly journals O MECANISMO E AS BASES INTELECTUAIS DA REVOLUÇÃO INDUSTRIAL INGLESA

2001 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Carlos Soares
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Newtonian Physics ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The World ◽  
English Industrial Revolution ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Scientific Conception

Neste artigo, pretende-se relacionar o processo de emergência da Revolução Industrial inglesa ao desenvolvimento de uma concepção filosófico-científica Mecanicista, consagrada pela Física Newtoniana e pela Ilustração no século XVIII, que concebiam a Natureza, o Mundo, e o Universo a partir de uma ordem mecânica objetiva e exterior ao Homem. No decorrer do século XX, a ampla divulgação do Mecanicismo possibilitou que essa concepção se tornasse uma das poderosas alavancas intelectuais da grande transformação técnicoprodutiva e social que se verificou na Inglaterra a partir dos anos 1780 – a Revolução Industrial. Abstract This article intends to associate the emergency of the English Industrial Revolution to the development of a mechanical, philosophical and scientific conception - consecrated by the Newtonian Physics and the Enlightenment in the 18th century -, which conceived the Nature, the World and the Universe as an objective, mechanical and external order to the Man. Throughout the 18th century, the wide divulgation of the Mechanism enabled it to become one of the powerfull intelectual levers of the Industrial Revolution, the process of technical, economic and social transformation that had taken place in England from the 1780’s onwards.

scholarly journals FROM ORANJE NASSAU TO PULAU LAUT : THE INVEST OF COAL MINING IN SOUTHEAST KALIMANTAN FROM 1845 TO 1931

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 323
Author(s):  
Mansyur -
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
World Market ◽  
Mining Company ◽  
The World ◽  
Coal Market ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
The 19Th Century

European Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century brought great changes not only in Europe itself but also in other parts of the world including Indonesia which was used to be a country of Dutch colony. The invention of steam-powered ships triggered the Dutch to use steam-powered vessels as the alteration of yachts, wind-powered ships, in the 19th century. At the beginning, the steam-powered ships used rotating wheels in the left and right side; however, the ships finally used ordinary windmills or propellers. The decrease and the lack of this production was getting worsened the competition of other producer countries in world market and the unstable coal market and in crisis year in 1930, Pulau Laut Mining Company production dropped so that it was closed down in the same year.

Social mobility and scientific change: Stephen Gray's contribution to electrical research

1990 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ben-Chaim
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Conductivity ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Experimental Philosophy ◽  
Physical Reality ◽  
Scientific Change ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Radical Transformation

The concept of electrical conductivity, or, as initially coined by Stephen Gray (1666–1736), ‘electrical communication’, has always been assigned an important role in the history of electrical research. Some thirty-five years after Gray's ‘electrical communication’ acquired wide attention, Priestley employed the concept of conductivity to define physical reality, thus giving a privileged position to the science he himself endeavoured to cultivate. As he argued in the introduction to The History and Present State of Electricity (1767), ‘the electrical fluid is no local, or occasional agent in the theatre of the world. Late discoveries show that its presence and effects are every where … It is not, like magnetism, confined to one kind of bodies, but every thing we know is a conductor or nonconductor of electricity’. Contemporary historians, for example, Heilbron, Home and Hackmann, link the concept of conductivity to a radical transformation of electrical research which pertained to its mode of organization and the definition of its subject-matter, and which culminated in its emergence as a distinctive branch of eighteenth-century ‘experimental philosophy’.

Disorganization and Reorganization

1962 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-161
Author(s):  
Everett Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
The World ◽  
Werner Sombart ◽  
Industrial Regions ◽  
New Institutions ◽  
Modified Forms

A world-wide revolution of organization, long under way, is now more widespread and profound than ever. In certain countries, called "Western" for some obscure reason, it has been called the industrial and urban revolution. In its earlier phases, as Paul Mantoux says in his Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century, it consisted in the invention not merely of new machines, but of new institutions of production and exchange, of new ways of organizing men for work, exchange, and communication. It also consisted, in part, of the rise of new breeds of man, unscrupulous — according to Werner Sombart in Das Wirtschaflsleben im Zeitalter des Hochkapitalismus—in the strict sense of not feeling bound by the hampering scruples of the older mercantile families; hence, able to act in new ways and in new combinations. The revolution, in the earlier phase and now as well, consisted of massive internal and international migrations to the growing industrial regions and urban centers; and of a good deal of shift and drift of other populations to fill the vacuum left by those who went to industry and cities. Europe, in course of all this, underwent such a drastic demographic explosion that it was able to populate America and other parts of the world while becoming itself more densely populated than ever. Migrations and increase of population almost of necessity break up kin and other patterns of organization, and lead eventually to their reorganization in new places and in modified forms.

Back to Basics: Bits and Pieces

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vlatko Vedral
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Information Age ◽  
The North ◽  
Common Misconception ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
The World ◽  
Processing Abilities ◽  
Concept Of Information

The concept of information is so ubiquitous nowadays that it is simply unavoidable. It has revolutionized the way we perceive the world, and for someone not to know that we live in the information age would make you wonder where they’ve been for the last 30 years. In this information age we are no longer grappling with steam engines or locomotives; we are now grappling with understanding and improving our information processing abilities – to develop faster computers, more efficient ways to communicate across ever vaster distances, more balanced financial markets, and more efficient societies. A common misconception is that the information age is just technological. Well let me tell you once and for all that it is not! The information age at its heart is about affecting and better understanding just about any process Nature throws at us: physical, biological, sociological, whatever you name it – nothing escapes. Even though many would accept that we live in the age of information, surprisingly the concept of information itself is still often not well understood. In order to see why this is so, it’s perhaps worth reflecting a little on the age that preceded it, the industrial age. Central concepts within the industrial age, which can be said to have begun in the early eighteenth century in the north of England, were work and heat. People have, to date, found these concepts and their applicability much more intuitive and easier to grasp than the equivalent role information plays in the information age. In the industrial age, the useful application of work and heat was largely evident through the resulting machinery, the type of engineering, buildings, ships, trains, etc. It was easy to point your finger and say ‘look, this is a sign of the industrial age’. In Leeds, for example, as I used to take my usual walk down Foundry Street in the area called Holbeck, traces of the industrial revolution were still quite evident. John Marshall’s Temple Mills and Matthew Murray’s Round Foundry are particularly striking examples; grand imposing buildings demanding respect and appreciation for the hundreds of people who worked in squalid conditions and around the clock to ensure that the country remained well fed, clothed, or transported.

Some Neglected Factors in the English Industrial Revolution

1959 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 528-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Krause
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
English Industrial Revolution

The economic differences between the Europeans on the eve of industrialization and the currently less developed peoples has assumed a certain degree of importance in the recent literature. It has been argued that West Europeans had significantly higher per capita incomes than do most of the peoples of the world today and that the levels of living of many people fell off during the process of early industrialization. Obviously, the argument is important in that the levels of living found in most of today's less developed peoples could not decline significantly widiout the risk of disaster.

Coal's Persistence in the Capitalist World-Economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul K. Gellert ◽  
Paul S. Ciccantell
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Ecological Modernization ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Coal Consumption ◽  
The World ◽  
Capitalist World Economy ◽  
Capitalist World

Predominant analyses of energy offer insufficient theoretical and political-economic insight into the persistence of coal and other fossil fuels. The dominant narrative of coal powering the Industrial Revolution, and Great Britain's world dominance in the nineteenth century giving way to a U.S.- and oil-dominated twentieth century, is marred by teleological assumptions. The key assumption that a complete energy “transition” will occur leads some to conceive of a renewable-energy-dominated twenty-first century led by China. After critiquing the teleological assumptions of modernization, ecological modernization, energetics, and even world-systems analysis of energy “transition,” this paper offers a world-systems perspective on the “raw” materialism of coal. Examining the material characteristics of coal and the unequal structure of the world-economy, the paper uses long-term data from governmental and private sources to reveal the lack of transition as new sources of energy are added. The increases in coal consumption in China and India as they have ascended in the capitalist world-economy have more than offset the leveling-off and decline in some core nations. A true global peak and decline (let alone full substitution) in energy generally and coal specifically has never happened. The future need not repeat the past, but technical, policy, and movement approaches will not get far without addressing the structural imperatives of capitalist growth and the uneven power structures and processes of long-term change of the world-system.

MANAGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION IN TEACHING AT HIGH SCHOOLS IN VINH YEN CITY, VINH PHUC PROVINCE MEETS INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 4.0

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vu Kha Thap
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Surface Strength ◽  
Technology Application ◽  
Management Measures ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Information Technology Application

Entering the XXI century and especially in the period of the industrial revolution has entered the era of IT with the knowledge economy in the trend of globalization. The 4.0 mankind development of ICT, especially the Internet has had a strong impact and make changes to all activities profound social life of every country in the world. Through surveys in six high School, interviewed 85 managers and teachers on the status of the management of information technology application in teaching, author of the article used the SWOT method to distribute surface strength, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges from which to export 7 management measures consistent with reality. 7 measures have been conducting trials and the results showed that 07 measures of necessary and feasible.

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