Species, serpents, spirits, and skulls : science at the margins in the Victorian age /

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Lyons, Sherrie Lynne, 1947-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2009.
Sujets:
1800-1899
Geschichte 1830-1900
Science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Science
History, 19th Century
Sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
sciences (philosophy)
science (modern discipline)
Intellectual life
Wissenschaft
Pseudowissenschaft
Naturwissenschaften
Wissenschaftlichkeit
Wissenschaftsentwicklung
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
United Kingdom
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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