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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... science . Advocates of scientific naturalism such as Tyndall , Huxley , W K Clifford and Herbert Spencer were prominently represented in leading scientific institutions and were effective publicists but their ideas did not escape ...
... naturalists also lay behind Kingsford's doctrines and beliefs , as did the understanding that the world was governed by natural principles and correspondences . Victorian scientific naturalism and Kingsford's Christian esotericism ...
... scientific naturalists and made more explicit arguments in favour of Divine ... naturalism . Salisbury presided over the BAAS meeting at Oxford in 1894 ... science and theology COUNTRY - HOUSE SCIENCE 149.
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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