Repositioning Victorian Sciences: Shifting Centres in Nineteenth-century Scientific ThinkingDavid Clifford 'Sciences' were named and formed with great speed in the nineteenth century. Yet what constitutes a 'true' science? The Victorian era facilitated the rise of practices such as phrenology and physiognomy, so-called sciences that lost their status and fell out of use rather swiftly. This collection of essays seeks to examine the marginalised sciences of the nineteenth century in an attempt to define the shifting centres of scientific thinking, specifically asking: how do some sciences emerge to occupy central ground and how do others become consigned to the margins? The essays in this collection explore the influence of nineteenth-century culture on the rise of these sciences, investigating the emergence of marginal sciences such as scriptural geology and spiritualism. 'Repositioning Victorian Sciences' is a valuable addition to our understanding of nineteenth-century science in its original context, and will also be of great interest to those studying the era as a whole. |
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... Becker was invited to be a patroness at the closing ball that summer , again indicating the obstacles created by ... Becker's 1868 paper on gender and intelligence argues for narrowing the ' supposed ' gaps between men and women by ...
... Becker's interest in gender flexibility in culture echoes her fascination with hermaphroditism in nature , and as such formulates the crux of her bid to make women esteemed participants at its meetings . Similarly , Becker expressed to ...
... Becker's " School for Science ” : a challenge to domesticity ' , Women's History Review , 10 ( 2001 ) , pp . 629-50 ... Becker's Paper Read Before the British Association for the Advancement of Science ' , Englishwoman's Review , 3 : 9 ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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