{"title":"Books by Anna Marie Roos","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781789141351","title":"Goldfish","description":"Living work of art, consumer commodity, scientific hero and environmental menace: the humble goldfish is the ultimate human cultural artefact. A creature of supposedly little memory and short lifespan, it has universal appeal. In ancient China, goldfish were saved from predators in acts of religious reverence and selectively bred for their glittering grace. In the East, they became the subject of exquisite art, regarded as living flowers that moved, while in the West, they became ubiquitous residents of the Victorian parlour. Cheap and eminently available, today they are bred by the millions for the growing domestic pet market, while also proving to be important to laboratory studies of perception, vision and intelligence.  In this illuminating homage to the goldfish, Anna Marie Roos challenges the cultural preconceptions of a creature often thought to be common and disposable, as she blends art and science to trace the surprising and intriguing history of this much-loved animal.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306843058549,"sku":"9781789141351","price":14.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781789141351_5e176ef2-f463-4f30-bd46-4a6ff9f90cd7.jpg?v=1786027342"},{"product_id":"9781851244898","title":"Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters – The Art of Science in the Seventeenth Century","description":"Martin Lister, royal physician and fellow of the Royal Society, was an extraordinarily prolific natural historian with an expertise in shells and molluscs.     Disappointed with the work of established artists, Lister decided to teach his daughters, Susanna and Anna, how to illustrate the specimens he studied. The sisters became so skilled at this that Lister entrusted them with his great work, 'Historiæ Conchyliorum', assembled between 1685 and 1692. This first comprehensive study of conchology consisted of over 1,000 copperplates of shells and molluscs collected from around the world. 'Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters' reconstructs the creation of this masterwork, from the identification of the original shells to the drawings themselves, and from the engraved copperplates to the draft prints and final books.     Susanna and Anna portrayed the shells not only as curious and beautiful objects, but also as specimens of natural history rendered with sensitivity and keen scientific empiricism. Beautiful in their own right, these illustrations and engravings reveal the early techniques behind scientific illustration together with the often unnoticed role of women in the scientific revolution.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308458684789,"sku":"9781851244898","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781851244898_1c691626-2331-4a03-9956-237de048c5a1.jpg?v=1786029360"},{"product_id":"blue-sky-thinking","title":"Blue Sky Thinking","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1885, the art critic John Ruskin and physicist Oliver Lodge exchanged a remarkable series of letters debating why the sky is blue and whether industrial pollution was changing Britain's atmosphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, Anna Marie Roos presents the first complete critical edition of the 1885-86 correspondence between John Ruskin and physicist Oliver Lodge, recovering a remarkable exchange that has been misrepresented for over a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence began when Lodge sent Ruskin his 1884 British Association lecture 'Dust', which criticised Ruskin's account of cloud formation in Modern Painters. What followed was not, as Lodge's subsequent publications implied, a case of a patient scientist instructing an artistically gifted but scientifically naïve empiricist. It was a genuine collaborative investigation in which both men brought distinct but equally consequential forms of expertise to questions of atmospheric physics. Drawing on the complete archival correspondence held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham, this work demonstrates that Ruskin's decades of systematic cloud observation and his Alpine use of the cyanometer gave him contributory expertise. His challenge to the dust hypothesis for the blueness of the sky was ultimately vindicated by Lord Rayleigh's proof that molecular scattering, not suspended particles, explains the colour of pristine upper atmosphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe introduction contextualises the exchange within Victorian debates about disciplinary boundaries between mathematical physics and aesthetic empiricism. Roos argues Lodge's editorial suppressions was strategic boundary-work that served his professional ambitions. A technical appendix connects the central scientific debates — Rayleigh versus Lorenz-Mie scattering, Stokes's Law, and kinetic theory — to contemporary climate science.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499187806581,"sku":"9780198955337","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-anna-marie-roos.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}