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The Victorian Palace of Science - Scientific Knowledge and the Building of the Houses of Parliament (Paperback)
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The Victorian Palace of Science - Scientific Knowledge and the Building of the Houses of Parliament (Paperback)
Series: Science in History
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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.
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