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Victorian literature and the physics of the imponderable /
The Victorians were obsessed with the empirical but were frequently frustrated by the sizeable gaps in their understanding of the world around them. This study examines how literature and popular culture adopted the emerging language of physics to explain the unknown or â#x80;#x98;imponderableâ#x8...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Pickering & Chatto,
2015.
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| Colección: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century ;
no. 26. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Victorians were obsessed with the empirical but were frequently frustrated by the sizeable gaps in their understanding of the world around them. This study examines how literature and popular culture adopted the emerging language of physics to explain the unknown or â#x80;#x98;imponderableâ#x80;#x99. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 204 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781781447901 178144790X 9781781447918 1781447918 9781317316817 1317316819 9781848935662 1848935668 |