Robert Willis (1800-1875) and the Foundation of Architectural History

by Alexandrina Buchanan

WINNER of the Cambridge Association for Local History book award 2016 Robert Willis was the archetypal nineteenth-century polymath. Officially, as Jacksonian Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, he specialized in the study of mechanism, which he also taught at the Royal School of Mines in London. In the field of science he was an experimentalist, inventor and educational innovator. Meanwhile, in his spare...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843838001
• ISBN13: 9781843838005
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 2.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 9.8"