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03991aam a2200589 i 4500 001 B6E55498840811E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 170831s2017 enkab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017040737 020 $a 1108419666 020 $a 9781108419666 035 $a (OCoLC)991105039 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d EYM $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d GZM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a DA687.W6 $b G55 2017 082 00 $a 942.1/32 $2 23 100 1 $a Gillin, Edward John, $d 1990- $e author. 245 14 $a The Victorian palace of science : $b scientific knowledge and the building of the Houses of Parliament / $c Edward J. Gillin. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xiv, 325 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Science in history 520 $a "The Palace of Westminster, home to Britain's Houses of Parliament, is one of the most studied buildings in the world. What is less well known is that while Parliament was primarily a political building, when built between 1834 and 1860, it was also a place of scientific activity. The construction of Britain's legislature presents an extraordinary story in which politicians and officials laboured to make their new Parliament the most radical, modern building of its time by using the very latest scientific knowledge. Experimentalists employed the House of Commons as a chemistry laboratory, geologists argued over the Palace's stone, natural philosophers hung meat around the building to measure air purity, and mathematicians schemed to make Parliament the first public space where every room would have electrically-controlled time. Through such dramatic projects, Edward J. Gillin redefines our understanding of the Palace of Westminster and explores the politically troublesome character of Victorian science"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 610 20 $a Westminster Palace (London, England) 600 10 $a Barry, Charles, $d 1795-1860. 600 17 $a Barry, Charles, $d 1795-1860. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00112372 610 27 $a Westminster Palace (London, England) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00631319 650 0 $a Architecture and science $z London. $z London. 650 0 $a Science $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Westminster (London, England) $x Buildings, structures, etc. 651 0 $a London (England) $x Buildings, structures, etc. 650 7 $a Architecture and science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00813573 650 7 $a Buildings. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00840962 650 7 $a Science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01108176 651 7 $a England $z London. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204271 651 7 $a England $z Westminster. $z Westminster. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01312768 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 650 7 $a Wissenschaft $2 gnd 650 7 $a Wissensproduktion $2 gnd 650 7 $a Kultur $2 gnd 651 7 $a Houses of Parliament $g London $2 gnd 651 7 $a Gro©britannien $2 gnd 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Science in history (Cambridge University Press) 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019024846.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190103014649.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B6E55498840811E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search