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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... 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 first ' reader ' in ...
... Symonds had eschewed sci- entific British works on sex such as Geddes and Thompson's recent biological study The Evolution of Sex ( 1889 ) . The bibliography reveals that Symonds read German , French and Italian . While his sexological ...
... Symonds implored his friend Arthur Symons to approach Havelock Ellis and ask whether he would consider collaborating with Symonds on a book.22 Ellis , who had recently made himself a name as a sexologist with the publication of The ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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