Cambridge: A Cultural HistoryInterlink Publishing Group Incorporated, 2004 M05 19 - 256 páginas From its origins in the thirteenth century the University of Cambridge has attracted many notable students and teachers, both brilliant and eccentric. From Erasmus to Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein, the university has been at the forefront of philosophical inquiry. Actors and directors like Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Peter Hall have earned Cambridge a reputation for theatrical excellence, while the colleges have been home to an extraordinary list of poets, including Milton and Wordsworth, Byron and Tennyson, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. During the twentieth century the city surrounding the university grew rapidly as a once small fenland town became a magnet for high-tech industries. As the Science Park and Business Park thrived, property prices and traffic congestion increased. But there are still quiet courts and green spaces—Parker's Piece, Midsummer Common, Jesus Green, and the Backs. Here is to be found Henry James' confusion of Gothic windows and ancient trees, of grassy banks and mossy balustrades, of sun-chequered avenues and groves, of lawns and gardens and terraces. Martin Garrett explores the buildings and streets of Cambridge, revealing the literature, history and personalities of this culturally rich city. • The University city: courts and gardens, dons and students; Cambridge poets and spies; the struggle for women's colleges and degrees. • The city of science and discovery: Newton, Darwin, the Cambridge physicists, the double helix, Stephen Hawking and secrets of the universe • The city of drama and comedy: from Latin entertainments for Elizabeth I to the Footlights and Monty Python. |
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... professors of modern history and of geology from the 1720s . But only some of the professors actually gave lectures ; Janet Browne in her biography of Darwin cites the aptly named William Lax , professor of astronomy and geometry from ...
... professors of modern history and of geology from the 1720s . But only some of the professors actually gave lectures ; Janet Browne in her biography of Darwin cites the aptly named William Lax , professor of astronomy and geometry from ...
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A Cultural History Martin Garrett. had been appointed Regius Professor of History with “ apparently no more reason " , claimed his enemy the historian Edward Freeman , “ than why he should be ... set to command the Channel Fleet ...
A Cultural History Martin Garrett. had been appointed Regius Professor of History with “ apparently no more reason " , claimed his enemy the historian Edward Freeman , “ than why he should be ... set to command the Channel Fleet ...
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... Professor of Mathematics . One of his successors as professor is Stephen Hawking ( b . 1942 ) , a more widely known theoretical physicist who came to Cambridge to do postgraduate work in 1962. His fame relies on his work on space - time ...
... Professor of Mathematics . One of his successors as professor is Stephen Hawking ( b . 1942 ) , a more widely known theoretical physicist who came to Cambridge to do postgraduate work in 1962. His fame relies on his work on space - time ...
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