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Contributes to a better understanding of Horace Mann and the educational reform movement he advanced.Head Masters challenges the assumption that phrenology-the study of the conformation of the skull as it relates to mental faculties and character-played only a minor and somewhat anecdotal role in the development of education. Stephen Tomlinson asserts instead that phrenology was a scientifically respectable theory of human nature, perhaps the first solid physiological psychology. He shows that the first phrenologists were among the most prominent scientists and intelle

Arts, American -- History -- 19th century. --- Education -- History -- 19th century. --- Phrenology -- History. --- Phrenology --- History --- History.

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Today we are all familiar with the iconic pictures of the nebulae produced by the Hubble Space Telescope's digital cameras. But there was a time, before the successful application of photography to the heavens, in which scientists had to rely on handmade drawings of these mysterious phenomena. Observing by Hand sheds entirely new light on the ways in which the production and reception of handdrawn images of the nebulae in the nineteenth century contributed to astronomical observation. Omar W. Nasim investigates hundreds of unpublished observing books and paper records from six nineteenth-century observers of the nebulae: Sir John Herschel; William Parsons, the third Earl of Rosse; William Lassell; Ebenezer Porter Mason; Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel; and George Phillips Bond. Nasim focuses on the ways in which these observers created and employed their drawings in data-driven procedures, from their choices of artistic materials and techniques to their practices and scientific observation. He examines the ways in which the act of drawing complemented the acts of seeing and knowing, as well as the ways that making pictures was connected to the production of scientific knowledge. An impeccably researched, carefully crafted, and beautifully illustrated piece of historical work, Observing by Hand will delight historians of science, art, and the book, as well as astronomers and philosophers.

Philosophy of science --- Applied astronomy --- Astronomer --- anno 1800-1899 --- Nebulae --- Astronomers --- Astronomy --- Observations --- History --- Nebulae - Observations - History - 19th century --- Astronomers - History - 19th century --- Astronomy - History - 19th century --- Physical scientists --- Galactic nebulae --- Gaseous nebulae --- Nebulas --- Galaxies

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In Mission Station Christianity , Ingie Hovland presents an anthropological history of the ideas and practices that evolved among Norwegian missionaries in nineteenth-century colonial Natal and Zululand (Southern Africa). She examines how their mission station spaces influenced their daily Christianity, and vice versa, drawing on the anthropology of Christianity. Words and objects, missionary bodies, problematic converts, and the utopian imagination are discussed, as well as how the Zulus made use of (and ignored) the stations. The majority of the Norwegian missionaries had become theological cheerleaders of British colonialism by the 1880's, and Ingie Hovland argues that this was made possible by the everyday patterns of Christianity they had set up and become familiar with on the mission stations since the 1850's.

Missions, Norwegian --- Norwegian missions --- History --- Missions, Norwegian - South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal - History - 19th century. --- Missions, Norwegian - South Africa - Zululand - History - 19th century.

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Politics --- Homosexuality, Female --- History, 20th Century --- History, 19th Century --- Feminism --- Physicians, Women --- history --- Equi, Marie, --- Politics. --- Homosexuality, Female. --- History, 20th Century. --- History, 19th Century. --- Physicians, Women. --- history. --- Oregon.

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Over the Rim is the first book about an important but little-known expedition sent by Brigham Young to explore southern Utah. Led by Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt, the party traveled from Salt Lake City south across the rim of the Great Basin to the Virgin River near future St. George. They brought back to Mormon leaders their first detailed portrait of the country to the south that the church planned to settle.

Mormons - Utah - History - 19th century. --- Mormons -- Utah -- History -- 19th century. --- Pratt, Parley P. --- Pratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker), 1807-1857. --- Utah - Discovery and exploration. --- Utah -- Discovery and exploration.