Repositioning Victorian Sciences: Shifting Centres in Nineteenth-century Scientific ThinkingDavid Clifford An intriguing look at the marginal sciences of the nineteenth century and their influence on the culture of the period. |
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... Moon.5 Bishop Francis Godwin wrote his popular and much - translated The Man in the Moone around 1585 ( it was not published until 1638 , after his death ) , in which a marooned sailor is carried to the Moon by migrating birds . Cyrano ...
... Moon.5 Bishop Francis Godwin wrote his popular and much - translated The Man in the Moone around 1585 ( it was not published until 1638 , after his death ) , in which a marooned sailor is carried to the Moon by migrating birds . Cyrano ...
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... Moon - indicating the durability of this relationship between concept and language even among more radically - minded Victorians ) . The traditional explanation for locating oneself or anything else ' in ' the Moon is that it is ...
... Moon - indicating the durability of this relationship between concept and language even among more radically - minded Victorians ) . The traditional explanation for locating oneself or anything else ' in ' the Moon is that it is ...
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... Moon applied infinitely to the planets beyond our nearest neighbour . Yet the Moon itself was giving up its secrets to advances in technology . As mirrors became more accurate , larger , and relatively less expensive popular science ...
... Moon applied infinitely to the planets beyond our nearest neighbour . Yet the Moon itself was giving up its secrets to advances in technology . As mirrors became more accurate , larger , and relatively less expensive popular science ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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