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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... vivisection has with science , the domain in which it originated and in which it thrived . She associates its practice with the tenets of science , namely mate- rialism and atheism . At the same time , she categorizes vivisection as a ...
... Vivisection'.19 Her loathing of vivisection was such that , with some success , she also attempted to murder two other vivisectors in Paris while she was studying there , and employed the same means to finish off Pasteur but was here ...
... vivisection controversy to more general lines of cultural authority . Who is speaking becomes more important than what is said . This redefinition of the terms of the conflict becomes clearer in the second docu- ment produced by the ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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