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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... GEOLOGY AFTER 1860 Caroline Trowbridge To read the geological work of John Ruskin from the early 1860s until the mid - 1880s is to look at a marginalized science through the lens of a marginal – and , ultimately , marginalized ...
... geology , one could think about the relations between geology and faith , one could be a patron of safe geology , one could be an author and a teacher of geology – without actually doing any geology . Most of the scriptural geologists ...
... geologists ; see C.C. Gillispie , Genesis and Geology ( Cambridge , MA , 1951 , rpt . Harvard University Press , 1996 ) ; Milton Millhauser , ' The scriptural geologists : an episode in the history of opinion ' in Osiris , 11 ( 1954 ) ...
Contents
Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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