Repositioning Victorian sciences : shifting centres in nineteenth-century scientific thinking / / edited by David Clifford [and others] [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Anthem Press, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 509.41/09034 |
Collana | Anthem nineteenth century studies |
Soggetto topico | Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-283-37768-3
9786613377685 1-84331-751-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; 1. Margins and centres / Alex Warwick -- ; 2. 'Speakers concerning the Earth' : Ruskin's geology after 1860 / Caroline Trowbridge -- ; 3. Swimming at the edges of scientific respectability : sea serpents in the Victorian era / Sherrie Lyons -- ; 4. 'The drugs, the blister and the lancet are all laid aside' : hydropathy and medical orthodoxy in Scotland, 1840-1900 / Alastair Durie -- ; 5. Anna Kingsford : scientist and sorceress / Alison Butler -- ; 6. A science for one or a science for all? : physiognomy, self-help, and the practical benefits of science / Lucy Hartley -- ; 7. 'Supposed differences' : Lydia Becker and Victorian women's participation in the BAAS / Susan David Bernstein. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459207803321 |
London : , : Anthem Press, , 2006 | ||
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Species, serpents, spirits, and skulls [[electronic resource] ] : science at the margins in the Victorian age / / Sherrie Lynne Lyons |
Autore | Lyons Sherrie Lynne <1947-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (263 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.41/09034 |
Soggetto topico | Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4384-2802-2
1-4416-2972-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455111303321 |
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Species, serpents, spirits, and skulls [[electronic resource] ] : science at the margins in the Victorian age / / Sherrie Lynne Lyons |
Autore | Lyons Sherrie Lynne <1947-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (263 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.41/09034 |
Soggetto topico | Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-4384-2802-2
1-4416-2972-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : an age of transition -- Swimming at the edges of scientific respectability : sea serpents, Charles Lyell, and the professionalization of geology -- Franz Gall, Johann Spurzheim, George Combe and phrenology : a science for everyone -- The crisis in faith : William Crookes and spiritualism -- Morals and materialism : Alfred Russel Wallace, spiritualism, and the problem of evolution -- Thatige skepsis : Thomas Huxley and evolutionary theory -- Negotiating the boundaries of science : an ongoing process. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778522003321 |
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Species, serpents, spirits, and skulls [[electronic resource] ] : science at the margins in the Victorian age / / Sherrie Lynne Lyons |
Autore | Lyons Sherrie Lynne <1947-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (263 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.41/09034 |
Soggetto topico | Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-4384-2802-2
1-4416-2972-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : an age of transition -- Swimming at the edges of scientific respectability : sea serpents, Charles Lyell, and the professionalization of geology -- Franz Gall, Johann Spurzheim, George Combe and phrenology : a science for everyone -- The crisis in faith : William Crookes and spiritualism -- Morals and materialism : Alfred Russel Wallace, spiritualism, and the problem of evolution -- Thatige skepsis : Thomas Huxley and evolutionary theory -- Negotiating the boundaries of science : an ongoing process. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807133403321 |
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Strange Science : Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age / / Lara P. Karpenko, Shalyn Claggett |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages :) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 509.41/09034 |
Soggetto topico | Science and state - Great Britain |
ISBN | 0-472-12245-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Part I. Strange Plants: New Frontiers in the Natural World : -- 1. Victorian Orchids and the Forms of Ecological Society -- 2. Discriminating the "Minuter Beauties of Nature": Botany as Natural Theology in a Victorian Medical School -- 3. "A Perfect World of Wonders": Marianne North and the Pleasures and Pursuits of Botany -- 4. Killer Plants of the Late Nineteenth Century -- Part II. Strange Bodies: Rethinking Physiology : -- 5. Reading through Deafness: Francis Galton and the Strange Science of Psychophysics -- 6. Performing Phonographic Physiology -- 7. "So Extraordinary a Bond": Mesmerism and Sympathetic Identification in Charles Adams's Notting Hill Mystery -- 8. Immoral Science in The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Part III. Strange Energies: Reconceptualizing the Physical Universe : -- 9. Chaotic Fictions: Nonlinear Effects in Victorian Science and Literature -- 10. The Victorian Occult Atom: Annie Besant and Clairvoyant Atomic Research -- 11. nductive Science, Literary Theory, and the Occult in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "Suggestive" System -- 12. Psychical Research and the Fantastic Science of Spirits -- 13. The Energy of Belief: The Unseen Universe, and the Spirit of Thermodynamics. |
Altri titoli varianti | Strange Science, Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910166649203321 |
Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2017 | ||
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Victorian popularizers of science [[electronic resource] ] : designing nature for new audiences / / Bernard Lightman |
Autore | Lightman Bernard V. <1950-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (565 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.41/09034 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Technical writing - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-42667-2
9786612426674 0-226-48117-4 |
Classificazione | HL 1101 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Historians, popularizers, and the Victorian scene -- Anglican theologies of nature in a post-Darwinian era -- Redefining the maternal tradition -- The showmen of science : wood, pepper, and visual spectacle -- The evolution of the evolutionary epic -- The science periodical : Proctor and the conduct of "knowledge" -- Practitioners enter the field : Huxley and Ball as popularizers -- Science writing on New Grub Street -- Conclusion: Remapping the terrain. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455395503321 |
Lightman Bernard V. <1950->
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 | ||
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Victorian popularizers of science [[electronic resource] ] : designing nature for new audiences / / Bernard Lightman |
Autore | Lightman Bernard V. <1950-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (565 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.41/09034 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Technical writing - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato | victorian, science, philosophy, history, dissemination, circulation, discovery, scientific knowledge, spectacle, lecture, women, gender, religion, huxley, ball, writing, periodicals, wood, pepper, anglican, spirituality, truth, theory, authority, nonfiction, media, social change, visual culture, professionalization, church reform, publishing |
ISBN |
1-282-42667-2
9786612426674 0-226-48117-4 |
Classificazione | HL 1101 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Historians, popularizers, and the Victorian scene -- Anglican theologies of nature in a post-Darwinian era -- Redefining the maternal tradition -- The showmen of science : wood, pepper, and visual spectacle -- The evolution of the evolutionary epic -- The science periodical : Proctor and the conduct of "knowledge" -- Practitioners enter the field : Huxley and Ball as popularizers -- Science writing on New Grub Street -- Conclusion: Remapping the terrain. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778490303321 |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 | ||
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Victorian popularizers of science : designing nature for new audiences / / Bernard Lightman |
Autore | Lightman Bernard V. <1950-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (565 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.41/09034 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Technical writing - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-282-42667-2
9786612426674 0-226-48117-4 |
Classificazione | HL 1101 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Historians, popularizers, and the Victorian scene -- Anglican theologies of nature in a post-Darwinian era -- Redefining the maternal tradition -- The showmen of science : wood, pepper, and visual spectacle -- The evolution of the evolutionary epic -- The science periodical : Proctor and the conduct of "knowledge" -- Practitioners enter the field : Huxley and Ball as popularizers -- Science writing on New Grub Street -- Conclusion: Remapping the terrain. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820530003321 |
Lightman Bernard V. <1950->
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