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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... physiognomy and phrenology fed this interest in mind and body , providing readings of external ( physical ) appearance that illuminated internal ( mental ) form.2 Of course , attempts to describe the core of our nature , or what it is ...
... physiognomy ( in the form proposed by Lavater ) do not easily resolve the tension between the idea of a practical science for amateur enthusiasts and a specialized science for the skilled professional . Lavater had a hugely optimistic ...
... physiognomy are all too evident here . Discrimination , or seeing difference , was the means through which physiognomy held to an essentialist method because it provided a means of ... physiognomy to serve PHYSIOGNOMY AND SELF - HELP 81.
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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