Articles
Please find below links to many of the most recent articles and publications that we are aware of, which mention William Nicholson (from 1948 onwards).
If you have written about William Nicholson, or would like to suggest an article or publication by someone else, we would be delighted to hear from you. We aim to update this page from time to time as more of his papers and works are uncovered and considered. Please email us at info@nicholsonsjournal.com.
Articles are currently presented in date order, with the most recent first. Inclusion on this website is entirely at our discretion.
Alison Martin, ‘Foreign Credit: Travel Writing and Authenticity in the Dutch Translation of the Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus, Count de Benyowsky (1790)’, inTRAlinea Special issue: Travel Writing and Translation (2013).
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Hasok Chang, Is Water H2O? Evidence, Pluralism and Realism (Dordrecht: Springer, 2012).
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Robert J. Bennett, Local Business Voice: the history of Chambers of Commerce in Britain, Ireland and Revolutionary America 1760–2011 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
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Hasok Chang, ‘The Hidden History of Phlogiston: How Philosophical Failure Can Generate Historiographical Refinement’, HYLE – International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, vol. 16, no. 2 (2010).
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Desmond King-Hele (ed.), The Collected Letters of Erasmus Darwin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), letter 86–87.
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Giuliano Pancaldi, Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003).
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Colin Russell, ‘Enterprise and electrolysis ...’, Chemistry in Britain (2003).
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A.W. Skempton et al., eds, A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 1: 1500–1830 (London: Thomas Telford for the Institution of Civil Engineers, 2002).
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Trevor H. Levere and Gerard L’E. Turner, Discussing Chemistry and Steam: The Minutes of a Coffee House Philosophical Society 1780–1787 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
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Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormach, Cavendish: The Experimental Life (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1999).
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W.H. Brock and A.J. Meadows, The Lamp of Learning, Taylor & Francis and the Development of Science Publishing (London: Taylor & Francis, 1984).
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James Harrison, ‘Some patent practitioners associated with the Society of the Arts c. 1790–1850’, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, vol. 130, no. 5312 (July 1982).
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G.E. Bentley Jr, ‘Copyright Documents in the George Robinson Archive: William Godwin and Others 1713–1820’, Studies in Bibliography, vol. 35 (Society of the University of Virginia, 1982).
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Nikolai Tolstoy, The Half-Mad Lord: Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (1775–1804) (London: J. Cape, 1978).
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Paul C. Keegan, William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries (London: H.S. King, 1876).
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Mary Hallett, ‘Portsmouth’s Water Supply, 1800–1960’, The Portsmouth Papers (Portsmouth: Portsmouth City Council, 1971).
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Eric Robinson and E.E. Masson, James Watt and the Stream Revolution (London: Adams & Dart, 1969).
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Lilley MSc, PhD, ‘Nicholson’s Journal (1797–1813)’, Annals of Science, 6:1 (1948).
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Exploring the life and publications
of William Nicholson 1753-1815