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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... women to annual lectures , but full incorporation of women into all aspects of the Association was a contested process that took over a century if we consider that Kathleen Lonsdale became its first woman president in 1966.5 When the ...
... women's participation in science through ' quiet persistence ' rather than ' public confrontation'.12 Somerville's silence on the matter of women at the BAAS did allow for interpretations such as Buckland's of her absence as an argument ...
... women access to scientific studies , she clearly championed women's full participation in science on egalitarian grounds rather than the comple- mentary logic of botany as a ' ladies ' science ' . Shteir has observed that Becker's work ...
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Ruskins Geology After 1860 | 17 |
Sea Serpents | 31 |
Scientist and Sorceress | 59 |
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