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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... magic in the western world frequently fails to explain the emergence of rationalism and scepticism in a world dominated by magical thought , yet attempts to explain why this magical belief exists as if it is the anomaly.5 The study of magic ...
... magic'.11 An evil twin , the unholy art of black magic grew alongside this true magic and developed into what Kingsford per- ceived to be modern medicine and what many of her scientific colleagues were practising . The difference ...
... magic , Kingsford provides important historical links in two different capacities . First , her interpretation of the use of the individual will in magic bridges the gap between a Neoplatonic compre- hension and the late nineteenth ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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