In the nineteenth century, the British Government spent money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. T

Kew Observatory was originally built in 1769 for King George III, a keen amateur astronomer, so that he could observe the transit of Venus. By the mid-nineteent

This collection of essays explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Charles Dicke

The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently package

Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. Whilst poets and novelists took inspiration from technical and