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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... interest in the subject of their study ' ( 18.201 ) . The subject of their study turns out to be their moral characters , and the interest turns out to be ' vital ' in both senses of being an important inter- est and also a living ...
... interest in the sea serpent reasonable , it is incomplete . Lyell seems to have marginalized his own interest in sea mon- sters . He had an entire folder devoted to the sea monster , but he made no ref- erence to them in his extensive ...
... interest to those studying the era as a whole . David Clifford teaches English at Homerton College , Cambridge . His research interests focus on eighteenth -and nineteenth - century literature , history of science and scientific ideas ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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