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Metaphysical Society (1869-1880)
Intellectual Life in Mid-Victorian England
Av Richard England, Bernard Lightman m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
1485 kr
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The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to ''collect, arrange, and diffuse Knowledge (whether objective or subjective) of mental and moral phenomena'' (first resolution of the …
Metaphysical Society (1869-1880)
Intellectual Life in Mid-Victorian England
Av Richard England, Bernard Lightman m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
1485 kr
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The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to ''collect, arrange, and diffuse Knowledge (whether objective or subjective) of mental and moral phenomena'' (first resolution of the …
The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880)
Intellectual Life in Mid-Victorian England
Av Catherine Marshall, Bernard Lightman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2123 kr
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The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to 'collect, arrange, and diffuse Knowledge (whether objective or subjective) of mental and moral phenomena' (first resolution of the …
Victorian Scientific Naturalism
Community, Identity, Continuity
Av Bernard Lightman, Gowan Dawson
Inbunden, 2014
454 kr
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Victorian Scientific Naturalism examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite. These scientific naturalists - …
Victorian Scientific Naturalism
Community, Identity, Continuity
Av Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman
E-bok, 2014
1015 kr
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Victorian Scientific Naturalism examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species , wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite. These scientific …
Science in the Marketplace
Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences
Av Bernard Lightman, Aileen Fyfe
E-bok, 2007
1184 kr
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The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in …
Science in the Marketplace
Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences
Av Aileen Fyfe, Bernard Lightman
Inbunden, 2007
537 kr
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The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in …
Victorian Science in Context
E-bok, 2008
1093 kr
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Victorians were fascinated by the flood of strange new worlds that science was opening to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all corners of the Empire, while revolutionary theories such as the radical idea that humans might be descended from apes drew crowds to heated debates. …
Victorian Science in Context
Häftad, 1997
501 kr
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Victorians were fascinated by the strange new worlds which science was revealing to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all corners of the Empire, while revolutionary theories such as the radical idea that humans might be descended from apes drew forth heated debates. The …
Victorian Popularizers of Science
Designing Nature for New Audiences
E-bok, 2009
956 kr
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The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time The Origin of Species was published in 1859, the British public looked not to practicing scientists but to a growing group of professional writers and journalists to …
Victorian Popularizers of Science
Designing Nature for New Audiences
Inbunden, 2007
640 kr
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"Victorian Popularizers of Science" focuses on the journalists and writers who wrote about science for a general audience in the second half of the nineteenth century. Bernard Lightman examines more than thirty of the most prolific and influential popularizers of the day, investigating how they …
Victorian Popularizers of Science
Designing Nature for New Audiences
Häftad, 2010
426 kr
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"Victorian Popularizers of Science" focuses on the journalists and writers who wrote about science for a general audience in the second half of the nineteenth century. Bernard Lightman examines more than thirty of the most prolific and influential popularizers of the day, investigating how they …
Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Constructing Scientific Communities
Av Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
527 kr
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Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants …
Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Constructing Scientific Communities
Av Jonathan R. Topham, Sally Shuttleworth m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
1118 kr
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Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants …
Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines
Av Bernard Lightman, Bennett Zon
Inbunden, 2019
2887 kr
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Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today seldom have those studies engaged with the Victorian origins of modern disciplinarity. Victorian …
Science Museums in Transition
Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Av Carin Berkowitz, Bernard Lightman
Inbunden, 2017
850 kr
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The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored museums. The science museum as we know it—an institution of …
Identity in a Secular Age
Science, Religion, and Public Perceptions
Av Fern Elsdon-Baker, Bernard Lightman
Inbunden, 2020
781 kr
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Although historians have suggested for some time that we move away from the assumption of a necessary clash between science and religion, the conflict narrative persists in contemporary discourse. But why? And how do we really know what people actually think about evolutionary science, let alone …
Evolutions and Religious Traditions in the Long Nineteenth Century
National and Transnational Histories
Av Bernard Lightman, Sarah Qidwai
Inbunden, 2024
919 kr
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Before the advent of radio, conceptions of the relationship between science and religion circulated through periodicals, journals, and books, influencing the worldviews of intellectuals and a wider public. In this volume, historians of science and religion examine that relationship through diverse …
Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences
Rethinking the Specialization Thesis
Av Bernard Lightman, Efram Sera-Shriar
Inbunden, 2024
919 kr
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The specialization thesis—the idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern disciplines—has played an integral role in the way historians have described the changing disciplinary map of nineteenth-century British science. This …
Age of Scientific Naturalism
Tyndall and His Contemporaries
Av Bernard Lightman, Michael S. Reidy
Häftad, 2020
744 kr
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Physicist John Tyndall and his contemporaries were at the forefront of developing the cosmology of scientific naturalism during the Victorian period. They rejected all but physical laws as having any impact on the operations of human life and the universe. Contributors focus on the way Tyndall and …
Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines
Av Bennett Zon, Bernard Lightman
E-bok, 2019
856 kr
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Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today seldom have those studies engaged with the Victorian origins of modern disciplinarity. Victorian …
Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines
Av Bennett Zon, Bernard Lightman
E-bok, 2019
956 kr
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Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today seldom have those studies engaged with the Victorian origins of modern disciplinarity. Victorian …
Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain
The ''Darwinians'' and their Critics
E-bok, 2023
935 kr
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Scholars have tended to portray T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution, these men of science are often seen as a potent force for the secularization of British …
Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain
The ''Darwinians'' and their Critics
E-bok, 2023
935 kr
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Scholars have tended to portray T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution, these men of science are often seen as a potent force for the secularization of British …
Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines
Av Bernard Lightman, Bennett Zon
Häftad, 2021
811 kr
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Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today seldom have those studies engaged with the Victorian origins of modern disciplinarity. Victorian …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 8
Av Justin Sausman, Roger Luckhurst m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
1016 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 5
Av Justin Sausman, Roger Luckhurst m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
994 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 3
Av James Elwick, David Amigoni m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
994 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 4
Av James Elwick, David Amigoni m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
3448 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 1
Av James Elwick, David Amigoni m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
910 kr
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This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called ''the literature of science'' – and more overtly literary texts that deal …
