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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... hydros ' were erected at Peebles , Pitlochry and Moffat , and in 1906 , whereas there were some fifty hydros in England , many of which were quite small , Scotland had no fewer than fifteen , nearly all of which were sizeable ...
... hydro was shared among the deserving of that ilk : church workers , ministers and mis- sionaries , people who needed a break rather a cure . Hydropathy per se was no longer the rationale for the hydros . There were still invalids but ...
... hydros at Seamill , Rothesay , Crieff , Forres and Deeside where the last of the line of Evangelical Union ministers to turn to the hydropathic business was in charge . Alexander Stewart had had , like Munro , a small church in Aberdeen ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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