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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... discourse . Such discourse is ' affirmed through assimilation , tightly interwoven with " one's own word " ' . It is creative and productive , awakening new words from within , and ' does not remain in an isolated and static condition ...
... discourse . The dialogic structure of the Mechanic's Magazine enacts internally persua- sive discourse . ' The internally persuasive word ' , Bakhtin writes , ' is either a contemporary word , born in a zone of contact with unresolved ...
... Discourse , p . 23 ; Adam Sedgwick , ' Vestiges of the Natural history of Creation ' in Edinburgh Review 165 ( 1845 ) , pp . 1–85 ; Secord , Victorian Sensation , p . 243 ; Sedgwick's attack would continue in his fifth edition of A ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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