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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... earth his- tory developmentally and argued that general trends through time could be detected on a global scale . This directional view of earth history was based on the geophysical theory of a cooling earth . By the 1820s , the theory ...
... earth – and natural philosophers were generating naturalistic theories to explain the origin and form of the earth – Anglican theologians were already accepting a non - literal reading of Genesis.3 - During the winter of 1803-04 , the ...
... Earth would , intuitively , be similar to Earth in all other respects , and the assumption of people living there was not regarded as absurd . In much the way that is still the case with contemporary expeditions to Mars , Victorian ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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