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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 9
... sexological subject ( although he later analysed the lesbianism of his wife Edith Lees ) and unlike his German colleague , his claim to medical authority was somewhat spurious . Ellis devoted his subsequent sexological studies mainly to ...
... sexological works at the time , it is noteworthy that Symonds had eschewed sci- entific British works on sex such as Geddes and Thompson's recent biological study The Evolution of Sex ( 1889 ) . The bibliography reveals that Symonds ...
... sexological authority in Britain was a complex , unstable construct . As we have seen in the assessment of Krafft- Ebing's work , while his role as a sexological authority was acknowledged , the discipline itself was marginal within the ...
Contents
Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
Copyright | |
11 other sections not shown