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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... theory and she is finishing a second book that examines three cases of marginal science and evolutionary theory in the Victorian period to explore issues of scientific marginality and legitimacy . John M Lynch is an Honors Faculty ...
... theory . While his distrust of theory was shared by many scientists of the period , 14 he tended to regard theories with which he disagreed as ' vile speculations ' needing to be discounted and theories with which he agreed as ...
... theory and praxis of social processes . In this case , the special attraction of physics , especially optics , lies in its potential for simplification and radical reduction , starting , as with all theories of enlightenment and modern ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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