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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... claimed the serpent : Can now no longer be considered in association with hydras and mermaids .... It [ is ] quite unconnected with the gigantic exploits of the God Thor or the fanciful absurdities of the Scandinavian mythology . We ...
... claiming that they should be taken as history and therefore represent some actual event in the past . Perhaps those ... claimed that ' the majority of our professors and curators would not know a whale from a porpoise , a shark from an ...
... claimed that the natural world revealed by the senses was the only true reality . Adherents to mysti- cism and magic claimed the same ; however , they were not convinced that the senses and the abilities of the senses as recognized by ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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