The Parliament that Science Built: Credibility, Architecture, and Britain's Palace of Westminster.
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Publication Date
2018-12Journal Title
Endeavour
ISSN
0160-9327
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Volume
42
Issue
4
Pages
189-195
Language
eng
Type
Article
Physical Medium
Print-Electronic
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Gillin, E. (2018). The Parliament that Science Built: Credibility, Architecture, and Britain's Palace of Westminster.. Endeavour, 42 (4), 189-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2018.07.005
Abstract
Between 1834 and 1860 the British government mobilised the latest scientific knowledge in the construction of the new Palace of Westminster, home to the nation's Houses of Parliament. Built in a Gothic style, this legislative building embodied the latest experimental techniques and expertise from geology, mathematics, engineering, chemistry, and optics. By exploring the narrative of this architectural project, it becomes clear just how central scientific values were to Victorian politics. At the same time, this article shows how the experience of constructing Britain's nineteenth-century parliament building has implications and lessons for parliamentary architecture today.
Sponsorship
ERC project, Sound and Materialism in the Nineteenth Century
Funder references
European Research Council (638241)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2018.07.005
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/284688
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Licence URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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