Browsing DCE Theses and Dissertations by Keyword "19th century"
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John Pringle Nichol and the Influence of Astronomy on George Eliot's First Novel
(2019-02-19)“Up to this point their orbits were individuals—without connection or unity.” That statement appeared in John Pringle Nichol’s The Phenomena and Order of the Solar System (1842), a scientific text which so transfixed the ... -
Technology versus the Atlantic Halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) of the Gulf of Maine: The Impact of Railroads, Sharpshooters, Ice Preservation, and the Telegraph on This Fishery, 1848-1868.
This study investigates the role of the industrial revolution in the precipitous decline of the offshore Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) population in the Gulf of Maine, from 1848 to 1868. New technologies ...