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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... Lyell maintained that ' reading ' the fossil record was like reading a book that had most of the pages missing and ... Lyell's uniformitarianism were rela- tively well accepted , the fossil record combined with the geophysical evidence ...
... Lyell had also written to a variety of other people including the zoologist G R Waterhouse and a Colonel Perkins of Boston who had seen the sea serpent in 1817. Colonel Perkins had written up a detailed account of the serpent and Lyell ...
... Lyell's view of earth history as well as take away the authority of the judiciary in deciding what constituted proper evidence . Lyell was interested in the sea serpent because it would have provided evidence for his theory of climate ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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