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William Benjamin Carpenter

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William Benjamin Carpenter CB FRS (29 October 1813 – 19 November 1885) was an English physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist. He was instrumental in the early stages of the unified University of London. [1]

81 relations: Adaptive unconscious, Anomalistic psychology, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Bristol, British Science Association, Cambridge University Press, Challenger expedition, Charles Darwin, Charles Scribner's Sons, Churchill Livingstone, Cognitive revolution, Crinoid, Devon, Dictionary of National Biography, Dowsing, Eozoon canadense, Eton College, European and American voyages of scientific exploration, Exeter, Fellow of the Royal Society, Foraminifera, Fullerian Professor of Physiology, Geological Society of London, George Romanes, Henry George Bohn, Hermann von Helmholtz, Highgate Cemetery, HMS Lightning, Hydrographic survey, Hypnosis, Id, ego and super-ego, Invertebrate, John Bishop Estlin, Joseph Estlin Carpenter, Lant Carpenter, Laurentia, Legum Doctor, Linnean Society of London, Lyell Medal, Mary Carpenter, Materialism, Membership of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, Microscope, Natural history, Neurology, Order of the Bath, Oxford University Press, Paranormal, Philip Herbert Carpenter, Philip Pearsall Carpenter, ..., Physiology, Popular Science, Quekett Microscopical Club, Rationalism, René Descartes, Royal Botanic Society, Royal Institution, Royal Medal, Royal Medical Society, Russell Lant Carpenter, Scientific community, Sir James Clark, 1st Baronet, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, Spiritualism, Suggestion, Table-turning, Teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, Thomas Laycock (physiologist), Thomas Rymer Jones, Trance, Unitarianism, University College London, University of Chicago Press, University of Edinburgh, University of London, Unmoved mover, Washington Irving Bishop, West Indies, William Gull, Zoology. Expand index (31 more) »

Adaptive unconscious

The adaptive unconscious, first coined by Daniel Wagner in 2002, is described as a series of mental processes that is able to affect judgement and decision making, but is out of reach of the conscious mind.

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Anomalistic psychology

In psychology, anomalistic psychology is the study of human behaviour and experience connected with what is often called the paranormal, with the assumption that there is nothing paranormal involved.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” The BHL consortium works with the international taxonomic community, rights holders, and other interested parties to ensure that this biodiversity heritage is made available to a global audience through open access principles.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.

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British Science Association

The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Challenger expedition

The Challenger expedition of 1872–76 was a scientific exercise that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.

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Charles Scribner's Sons

Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton.

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Churchill Livingstone

Churchill Livingstone is an academic publisher.

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Cognitive revolution

The cognitive revolution was an intellectual movement that began in the 1950s as an interdisciplinary study of the mind and its processes, which became known collectively as cognitive science.

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Crinoid

Crinoids are marine animals that make up the class Crinoidea of the echinoderms (phylum Echinodermata).

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.

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Dowsing

Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites, and many other objects and materials without the use of scientific apparatus.

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Eozoon canadense

Eozoön canadense (literally, "dawn animal of Canada") is a pseudofossil.

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Eton College

Eton College is an English independent boarding school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor.

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European and American voyages of scientific exploration

The era of European and American voyages of scientific exploration followed the Age of Discovery and were inspired by a new confidence in science and reason that arose in the Age of Enlightenment.

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Exeter

Exeter is a cathedral city in Devon, England, with a population of 129,800 (mid-2016 EST).

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".

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Foraminifera

Foraminifera (Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are members of a phylum or class of amoeboid protists characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm for catching food and other uses; and commonly an external shell (called a "test") of diverse forms and materials.

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Fullerian Professor of Physiology

The Fullerian Chairs at the Royal Institution in London, England, were established by John 'Mad Jack' Fuller.

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Geological Society of London

The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom.

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George Romanes

George John Romanes FRS (20 May 1848 – 23 May 1894) was a Canadian-English evolutionary biologist and physiologist who laid the foundation of what he called comparative psychology, postulating a similarity of cognitive processes and mechanisms between humans and other animals.

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Henry George Bohn

Henry George Bohn (4 January 179622 August 1884) was a British publisher.

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Hermann von Helmholtz

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 – September 8, 1894) was a German physician and physicist who made significant contributions in several scientific fields.

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Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England.

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HMS Lightning

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Lightning.

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Hydrographic survey

Hydrographic survey is the science of measurement and description of features which affect maritime navigation, marine construction, dredging, offshore oil exploration/offshore oil drilling and related activities.

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Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.

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Id, ego and super-ego

The id, ego, and super-ego are three distinct, yet interacting agents in the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche.

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.

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John Bishop Estlin

John Bishop Estlin (26 December 1785 – 10 June 1855) was an English ophthalmic surgeon.

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Joseph Estlin Carpenter

Joseph Estlin Carpenter (5 October 1844 – 2 June 1927) was a Unitarian minister, the principal of Manchester College, Oxford.

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Lant Carpenter

Lant Carpenter, Dr. (2 September 1780 – 5 or 6 April 1840) was an English educator and Unitarian minister.

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Laurentia

Laurentia or the North American Craton is a large continental craton that forms the ancient geological core of the North American continent.

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Legum Doctor

Legum Doctor (Latin: "teacher of the laws") (LL.D.; Doctor of Laws in English) is a doctorate-level academic degree in law, or an honorary doctorate, depending on the jurisdiction.

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Linnean Society of London

The Linnean Society of London is a society dedicated to the study of, and the dissemination of information concerning, natural history, evolution and taxonomy.

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Lyell Medal

The Lyell Medal is a prestigious annual scientific medal given by the Geological Society of London, equal in status to the Murchison Medal.

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Mary Carpenter

Mary Carpenter (3 April 1807 – 14 June 1877) was an English educational and social reformer.

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Materialism

Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental aspects and consciousness, are results of material interactions.

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Membership of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland

Membership of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (MRCS) is a postgraduate diploma for surgeons in the UK and Ireland.

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Microscope

A microscope (from the μικρός, mikrós, "small" and σκοπεῖν, skopeîn, "to look" or "see") is an instrument used to see objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Neurology

Neurology (from νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the nervous system.

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Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (formerly the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath) is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Paranormal

Paranormal events are phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described to lie beyond normal experience or scientific explanation.

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Philip Herbert Carpenter

Philip Herbert Carpenter (6 February 1852 in London – 21 October 1891 in Eton College), MA, D.Sc., FRS, British naturalist and crinoid authority, was the fourth son of Dr. William Benjamin Carpenter. He took his own life, by self-administration of chloroform during a bout of temporary insanity caused by chronic insomnia.

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Philip Pearsall Carpenter

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Physiology

Physiology is the scientific study of normal mechanisms, and their interactions, which work within a living system.

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Popular Science

Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is an American quarterly magazine carrying popular science content, which refers to articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects.

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Quekett Microscopical Club

The Quekett Microscopical Club offers membership to all who are interested in the microscope and microscopy.

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Rationalism

In philosophy, rationalism is the epistemological view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" or "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification".

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René Descartes

René Descartes (Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; adjectival form: "Cartesian"; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist.

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Royal Botanic Society

The Royal Botanic Society was a learned society founded in 1839.

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Royal Institution

The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often abbreviated as the Royal Institution or Ri) is an organisation devoted to scientific education and research, based in London.

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Royal Medal

A Royal Medal, known also as The King's Medal or The Queen's Medal, depending on the gender of the monarch at the time of the award, is a silver-gilt medal, of which three are awarded each year by the Royal Society, two for "the most important contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge" and one for "distinguished contributions in the applied sciences", done within the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Royal Medical Society

The Royal Medical Society (RMS) is a society run by students at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, Scotland.

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Russell Lant Carpenter

Russell Lant Carpenter (December 17, 1816 – 1892), a Unitarian minister who carried on the works of his father, Dr.

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Scientific community

The scientific community is a diverse network of interacting scientists.

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Sir James Clark, 1st Baronet

Sir James Clark, 1st Baronet, KCB (14 December 1788 – 29 June 1870) was a British physician who was Physician-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria between 1837 and 1860.

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Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet FRSE DD FSAS (8 March 1788 – 6 May 1856) was a Scottish metaphysician.

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Spiritualism

Spiritualism is a new religious movement based on the belief that the spirits of the dead exist and have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living.

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Suggestion

Suggestion is the psychological process by which one person guides the thoughts, feelings, or behavior of another person.

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Table-turning

Table-turning (also known as table-tapping, table-tipping or table-tilting) is a type of séance in which participants sit around a table, place their hands on it, and wait for rotations.

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Teleology

Teleology or finality is a reason or explanation for something in function of its end, purpose, or goal.

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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist specialising in comparative anatomy.

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Thomas Laycock (physiologist)

Prof Thomas Laycock FRSE FRCPE (1812 – 21 September 1876) was an English physician and neurophysiologist who was a native of Bedale near York.

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Thomas Rymer Jones

Thomas Rymer Jones, FRS (1810 – 10 October 1880) was an English surgeon, academic and zoologist.

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Trance

Trance denotes any state of awareness or consciousness other than normal waking consciousness.

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Unitarianism

Unitarianism (from Latin unitas "unity, oneness", from unus "one") is historically a Christian theological movement named for its belief that the God in Christianity is one entity, as opposed to the Trinity (tri- from Latin tres "three") which defines God as three persons in one being; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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University College London

University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States.

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.

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University of London

The University of London (abbreviated as Lond. or more rarely Londin. in post-nominals) is a collegiate and a federal research university located in London, England.

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Unmoved mover

The unmoved mover (that which moves without being moved) or prime mover (primum movens) is a concept advanced by Aristotle as a primary cause or "mover" of all the motion in the universe.

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Washington Irving Bishop

Washington Irving Bishop, also known as Wellington (4 March 1855 – 13 May 1889) was an American stage mentalist.

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West Indies

The West Indies or the Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.

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William Gull

Sir William Withey Gull, 1st Baronet (31 December 1816 – 29 January 1890), was a 19th-century English physician.

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Zoology

Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.

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References

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