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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... social realm – and particularly , to link labour to sunlight . Herbert Spencer , for instance , made ' The Correlation and Equivalence of Forces ' a lynchpin of his philosophy because it dramatized the congruence of social and natural ...
... social sciences and humanities . What is most interesting for the essay at hand is that the idea of a permanent and unbridgeable hiatus between scientific and social - philosophical thinking appears to be without solid ground . Even in ...
... social interaction , returned to Descartes's radical concept of rational equality . But the Cartesian isolationism of ' lone ( rational ) wolfs ' got a new intersubjec- tive impetus by Fresnel's principle of interfering elementary waves ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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