LEADER 04137nam 22006135 450 001 9910586578203321 005 20251202161927.0 010 $a9783031052804$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031052798 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-05280-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7069243 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7069243 035 $a(CKB)24342071400041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-05280-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924342071400041 100 $a20220802d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCosmology and the Scientific Self in the Nineteenth Century $eAstronomic Emotions /$fby Howard Carlton 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (316 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Carlton, Howard Cosmology and the Scientific Self in the Nineteenth Century Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031052798 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart1. Introduction -- 1. Crisis and Cosmology -- Part II The Extraterrestrial Life Debate.-2 Planets and Pluralism.-3 ?In Yonder Hundred Million Spheres? -- 4 ?What Is Man if Thou Art Mindful of Him?? -- 5 Richard Proctor and Private Judgement -- Part III The Nebular Hypothesis -- 6 John Pringle Nichol, the Nebular Hypothesis and Progressive Cosmogony.-7 ?And Eddied into Suns, that Wheeling Cast/The Planets? -- 8 ?In Tracts of Fluent Heat Began? -- Part IV The Ages of the Earth and Sun -- 9 ?And Murmurs from the Dying Sun? -- 10 The North Britons. 330 $aThis book argues that while the historiography of the development of scientific ideas has for some time acknowledged the important influences of socio-cultural and material contexts, the significant impact of traumatic events, life threatening illnesses and other psychotropic stimuli on the development of scientific thought may not have been fully recognised. Howard Carlton examines the available primary sources which provide insight into the lives of a number of nineteenth-century astronomers, theologians and physicists to study the complex interactions within their ?biocultural? brain-body systems which drove parallel changes of perspective in theology, metaphysics, and cosmology. In doing so, he also explores three topics of great scientific interest during this period: the question of the possible existence of life on other planets; the deployment of the nebular hypothesis as a theory of cosmogony; and the religiously charged debates about the ages of the earth and sun. From this body of evidence we gain a greater understanding of the underlying phenomena which actuated intellectual developments in the past and which are still relevant to today?s knowledge-making processes. Howard Carlton received his PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK. His research explores a number of nineteenth-century astronomical controversies in order to demonstrate that the ideas of participants in these debates were materially altered by traumatic life-events, as evidenced by their subsequent productions and their performances of altered selves. 606 $aChurch history 606 $aScience$xHistory 606 $aAstronomy 606 $aSocial history 606 $aChurch History 606 $aHistory of Science 606 $aAstronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences 606 $aSocial History 615 0$aChurch history. 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 0$aAstronomy. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 14$aChurch History. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aAstronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences. 615 24$aSocial History. 676 $a113.0924 676 $a509.034 700 $aCarlton$b Howard$01253136 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910586578203321 996 $aCosmology and the Scientific Self in the Nineteenth Century$92905280 997 $aUNINA