Science in Art and Literature of Great Britain

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Art Links

National Portrait Gallery
representations of Newton at Whipple Museum for History of Science
Art-Science Dialogue at The Royal Institution
 
artist biographical information exhibits online
Joseph Wright of Derby
1734-1797
WebMuseum Web Gallery of Art
Tate Britain: Landscape and Empire
BBC Painting the Weather
National Portrait Gallery
CGFA
John Constable
1776-1837
WebMuseum
CGFA (Encarta)
Constable Galleries at V&A
Tate Britain: 
Constable & Outdoor Painting
John Constable:  Life and Reputation
Constable's Later Years
National Gallery:  The Hay Wain
BBC Painting the Weather
BBC Constable's Clouds
Fitzwilliam
CGFA
JMW Turner
1775-1851
WebMuseum
Victorian Web
BBC
The First Impressionist
CGFA (Encarta)
Ruskin's Turners at Cambridge (Fitzwilliam)
Tate Britain's Turner Collection
BBC Painting the Weather
National Gallery
Digital Archive of Art
CGFA
John Ruskin
1819-1900
Victorian Web
Ruskin Programme at Lancaster
Tate Britain:  Ruskin, Turner, and the Pre-Raphaelites
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Claude Monet
1840-1926
WebMuseum
biography.com
WebMuseum: Monet's Houses of Parliament, London
BBC Painting the Weather
National Gallery
Digital Archive of Art
CGFA
Georges Seurat 1859-1891 WebMuseum
CGFA (Encarta)
BBC Painting the Weather
CGFA
National Gallery
Marianne North
1830-1890
. Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens
Beatrix Potter 1866-1943 Literary Traveler .
Susan Derges 1955 -  . Natural Magic (Museum of History of Science, Oxford)

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Photography

Victorian Web 19th photography timeline
history of photography (Leggat)
 
scientist biographical information exhibits online
William Henry Fox Talbot, FRS
1800-1877 (Cambridge)
St. Andrew's
BBC 
Fox Talbot Museum of Photography in Wiltshire
Sir John Herschel, FRS 
1792-1871 (Cambridge)
St. Andrew's
link to History of Science page
.
James Clerk Maxwell, FRS 
1831-1879 (Trinity)
link to History of Science page Cameras:  The Technology of Photographic Imaging
(Museum of History of Science, Oxford)
Maxwell: early photographs

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Literature Links

VoS Humanities Collections

Luminarium (Medieval, Renaissance, 17th century)
 
author websites electronic texts
Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593 
(Cambridge)
Luminarium
Bedford
brief biography at Bartleby
Cambridge History of English & American Lit
Complete Works of Marlowe
Project Gutenberg

Chronology of 18th and 19th Centuries
Romantic Natural History
Romantic Circles
Romantic Chronology
 
Alexander Pope 
1688-1744
pre-Victorian Web . admirer of 
Isaac Newton
James Thomson 
1700-1748
Romantic Natural History A poem sacred to the memory of Sir Isaac Newton  admirer of 
Isaac Newton
William Wordsworth
1770-1850 (Cambridge)
Romantic Natural History
VoS William Wordsworth links
Cambridge History of English & American Lit
pre-Victorian Web
complete works of Wordsworth admirer of 
Isaac Newton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
1772-1834 (Cambridge)
Romantic Natural History
pre-Victorian Web
STC archive (UVa)
STC timeline
Bedford
Cambridge History of English & American Lit
Excerpts from The Friend (scientific writings)
poems
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
admirer of 
Joseph Priestley
friend of
Humphrey Davy
George Gordon, Lord Byron 
1788-1824 (Trinity)
Bedford
Romantic Natural History
pre-Victorian Web
English history net
. .
John Keats 
1795-1821
Romantic Natural History
pre-Victorian Web
Lamia Part 1 and Part 2 (Bartleby) .
Mary Shelley
1797-1851
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Lynch 18th Century Context for Frankenstein
Frankenstein MOO Project
Villa Diodati MOO
National Institute of Health Frankenstein Exhibit
BBC
pre-Victorian Web
Project Gutenberg admirer of 
Humphrey Davy

Victorian Web
 
Charles Dickens
1812-1870
Dickens Project
Victorian Web:  Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens Page
BBC
Project Gutenberg .
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930 Sherlockian net
221b Baker Street
The Sherlock Holmes Museum of Baker Street
PBS
BBC
Sherlockian index by story of sources
Project Gutenberg
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G Bernard Shaw
1856-1950
Bedford
brief biography
GBS Information & Research
Nobel Prize 1925
GB Shaw links
English Server Drama Collection: Pygmalion
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H G Wells
1866-1946
H.G. Wells
Hypertext Classics
Project Gutenberg student of 
T H Huxley

20th Century Resources (Lynch)
Norton 20th Century Topics Online
100 best novels of the 20th century
Modernism and the Modern Novel
 
Sir Charles Percy Snow
1905-1980 (Cambridge)
physical chemist, civil servant, and novelist
Bartleby
brief review of "The Two Cultures"
R. Kimball critique of "The Two Cultures"
Tom Stoppard
1937 - 
playwright
Travesties
The Complete Review
Chaos, Fractals, and Arcadia
Peterson's Mathland on Arcadia
Arcadia Web
Douglas Adams
1952-2001 (Cambridge)
writer for radio, tv, novels
BBC
eulogy by Richard Dawkins
official website

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Education Links:

History of University of Cambridge
brief history of Trinity College
Cambridge at the Time of Newton (Westfall)
short history of University of Oxford

Cambridge History of English & American Lit:
English Universities, Schools and Scholarship in the Sixteenth Century
Education in Seventeenth Century
Education in Victorian Age

Sigma Xi 2001 Forum on Science, the Arts and the Humanities:  Connections and Collisions
Medieval and Modern views on "what should an educated person know"
Creative Co-Dependents:  Science, the Arts, and the Humanities

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Last updated: May 27, 2010