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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 13
... Ethics of the Dust presents supposedly indisputable facts and straightforward means of finding them while at the same time noting that the facts have been disputed . As a result , he ends up giving his audience , both within the text ...
Shifting Centres in Nineteenth-century Scientific Thinking David Clifford. of Ethics , however , there was a more powerful sense that science could make statements immediately relevant to political economy , ethics and social ...
... Ethics is indebted to Symonds's classical scholarship , A Problem in Modern Ethics documents how Symonds's under- standing of sexuality partly derived from his study of European sexology . A Problem in Modern Ethics might be called the ...
Contents
Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
Copyright | |
11 other sections not shown