Edward J. Gillin

Dec 25, 2023 | academic.oup.com | Edward J. Gillin

Music and science have a long history of interaction, from ancient times to the present. The word music comes from the ancient Greek mousikē, which meant ‘all the activities of the Muses, vocal and instrumental as well as the arts of poetry and dance’ (P. Pesic, Music and the Making of Modern Science [2014], p. 9). Believing that ‘all is number’, followers of Pythagoras applied the principle to music, and in the process forged an inextricable relationship that continues to be felt today.

Dec 15, 2023 | blog.oup.com | Edward J. Gillin |Becky Clifford

An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Survey in the Age of Imperialism By Edward J. Gillin December 15th 2023 The concept of global science was not new in the nineteenth century. Nor was that of government-sponsored science. But during the 1830s and 1840s, both of these concepts underwent a profound transformation: one that still has ramifications over today’s relationship between specialist knowledge and the modern nation state. We are used to governments invoking...

Dec 15, 2023 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Edward J. Gillin |Becky Clifford

An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Survey in the Age of Imperialism By Edward J. Gillin December 15th 2023 The concept of global science was not new in the nineteenth century. Nor was that of government-sponsored science. But during the 1830s and 1840s, both of these concepts underwent a profound transformation: one that still has ramifications over today’s relationship between specialist knowledge and the modern nation state. We are used to governments invoking...