Yr Athro Iwan Rhys Morus

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MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab) Photograph of Yr Athro Iwan Rhys Morus.

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Ebost: irm@aber.ac.uk
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Rhif Ffon: 2670

Bywgraffiad

Mae Iwan Rhys Morus MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab) yn hanesydd gwyddoniaeth, technoleg a meddygaeth y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Mae ganddo ddiddordeb hefyd yn hanes y corff a diwylliant poblogaidd y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Cyhoeddodd yn eang ar y themâu hyn ac mae ei lyfrau diweddar yn cynnwys Shocking Bodies (History Press, 2011), When Physics became King (Chicago, 2005), Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century (Icon Books, 2004) a Frankenstein's Children (Princeton, 1998). Mae ei brosiectau ymchwil yn canolbwyntio ar dwyll y llygaid fel ymarferion athronyddol ac arbrofol yn y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg yn ogystal â hanes mwy cyffredinol perfformiadau gwyddonol yn y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Dr. Morus yw golygydd History of Science. Ef hefyd yw Cyfarwyddwr Prosiect ‘Memory and Media in Wales’, prosiect ymchwil a ariennir gan JISC, ac mae’n uwch-gydgysylltydd ar gyfer Prosiect Gohebiaeth John Tyndall ym Mhrifysgol Montana State.

Cyhoeddiadau

Erthyglau mewn cyfnodolion

  • "Cables and Coils and Gassiot Cascades: That’s what Electrical Bodies are made of", Annales Historiques de l’Électricité, 2010, 8: 105-17.
  • "Illuminating the Victorians", History and Technology, 2010, 26: 157-62.
  • "Radicals, Romantics and Electrical Showmen: Placing Galvanism at the End of the English Enlightenment," Notes & Records of the Royal Society, 2009, 63: 263-75.
  • "What is the History of Science Really Like?" History of Science, 2009, 47: 359-66.
  • "Sensational, Spectacular Science", Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 2009, 39: 356-66.
  • "Newton, Duw a Dawkins", Diwinyddiaeth, 2008, 59: 4-10.
  • "Working Out in the Nineteenth Century", Studies in History & Philosophy of Science, 2007, 38: 605-9
  • "The Two Cultures of Electricity: Between Entertainment and Edification in Victorian Science," Science & Education, 2007, 16: 593-602

Penodau mewn llyfrau

  • "In the Ether: Electricity and the Victorian Future", Mary Kemperink & Leonieke Vermeer (goln.), Utopianism and the Sciences (Leuven: Peeters Publishing, 2010), 17-32
  • "A Dynamical Form of Mechanical Effect: Thomson’s Thermodynamics", Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney & Andrew Whitaker (gol.), Kelvin : Life, Labours and Legacy (Rhydychen: Gwasg Prifysgol Rhydychen, 2008), 122-39
  • "More the Aspect of Magic than Anything Natural: The Philosophy of Demonstration in Victorian Popular Science," Bernard Lightman & Aileen Fyfe (goln.), Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-century Sites and Experiences (Chicago IL: Gwasg Prifysgol Chicago, 2007), 336-70

Llyfrau

  • Shocking Bodies: Life, Death and Electricity in Victorian England (History Press, 2011)