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Repositioning Victorian sciences : shifting centres in nineteenth-century scientific thinking / edited by David Clifford [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Anthem Press, 2006Description: 1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781843317517 (ebook)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 509.41/09034 22
LOC classification:
  • Q127.G4 R47 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: An intriguing look at the marginal sciences of the nineteenth century and their influence on the culture of the period.
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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.

An intriguing look at the marginal sciences of the nineteenth century and their influence on the culture of the period.

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