Cultural History of 18th- & 19th-century Britain - Science topic

My own occasional attempts to identify the contributors of articles and paratexts on other subjects have been only mildly successful. For architecture, I would start with Kevin Patrick Harrington, Architectural Relationships: Changing Ideas on Architecture in the Encyclopédie, Diss. Cornell Univ., 1981.

I presume that you have already compared Blondel's discussion of the same subject in volume IV of his Cours d'architecture (1773), chapter V, pp. 360ss.

This may or may not be relevant to you, but I just heard about an eye set in silver as a relic of a Jesuit priest (Oldcorne), on a radio program (see link for transcript). It reminded me about this and thought it might be of interest to you. Obviously it is earlier than your ring, but they may have common origins?

It was not the scientists who suffered - it was the crew.

"When the voyage came to an end in 1876, only 144 crew remained on the ship from the original 216 members. Seven people had died, 26 were left in hospitals or were unable to continue the journey, and several had deserted at the various ports of call. After the death of Prof. Thomson in 1882, John Murray became director and edited the Expedition Reports." https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/the-challenger-expedition-and-the-beginning-of-oceanography/comment-page-1/

There is an e-book here which may help: "At Sea with the Scientifics"

There is a free preview so you can decide whether to buy it.

I suggest that you search for "The Challenger Expedition" with Google, Google Scholar and Google Books. That is what I did  https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=the+challenger+expedition

Hey Gill, here is a closer shot :-)

The Longsight Public Library:

Dear Karen

Have a look at this:

Barron, Anne. "Copyright law's musical work." Social & Legal Studies 15.1 (2006): 101-127.

Kretschmer, Martin, and Friedemann Kawohl. "The history & philosophy of copyright." (2004): 21-53.

Kretschmer, Martin. "Intellectual property in music: A historical analysis of rhetoric and institutional practices∗." Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies 6.2 (2000): 197-223.

Ginsburg, Jane C. "“Une chose publique ? The author's domain and the public domain in early British French and US Copyright Law" The Cambridge Law Journal 65.03 (2006): 636-670.

Coleman should provide some general theoretical points of departure, but you probably know this. I also find Raymond Boudon's work surprisingly relevant when it comes to studies of social capital.