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Species, serpents, spirits, and skulls : science at the margins in the Victorian age /
"Science permeates nearly every aspect of our lives, and yet, as current debates over intelligent design, the causes of global warming, and alternative health practices indicate, the question of how to distinguish science from pseudoscience remains a difficult one. To address this question, She...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.