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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... professionally legitimate as late as about 1870. This aspect of his work went unacknowledged by geologists at his death and remains entirely unacknowledged today . Despite Ruskin's evident inclination to produce professional geological ...
... professional researchers and popu- larizers of science , but Ruskin wished to be not only that but also a popular and professional practitioner of many disciplines . His perception of professional equality with Tyndall might seem ...
... professional scientists had to reinvent the symbolism of their architecture , their investiga- tive practices , and the methods by which their community represented itself to society . From the building of the first laboratories in ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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