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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... popular science , he wished to fit into both camps . In the 1860s , he produced radically different kinds of geological work : a popular geological lecture for the Royal Institution in 1863 ; The Ethics of the Dust in 1866 , a highly ...
... popular and professional - were increasingly raised to counteract the movement's limited view of existence . Rather than giving their children a mild storybook of scientific fables , parents might choose one which would encourage the ...
... popular astronomy sought to superimpose Earth - like qualities , while still embracing all the evi- dence pointing to its lifelessness , through its status as a safely distant and mysterious place . And to conclude my codicils to the ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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