Victorian science in context

Victorians were fascinated by the flood of strange new worlds that science was opening to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all corners of the empire, while revolutionary theories such as the idea that humans might be descended from apes drew crowds to heated debates. Victorian...

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adam_text VICTORIAN SCIFNCF IN CONTFXT E D I T E D B Y RFPNABD I ICNHTMAN SUB GOTTINGEN. 7 210 103 752 99 A 7292 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS /*CHICAGO AND LONDON CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VII INTRODUCTION BY BERNARD LIGHTMAN 1 PART ONE DEFINING KNOWLEDGE 1 DEFINING KNOWLEDGE: AN INTRODUCTION 15 GEORGE LEVINE 2 THE CONSTRUCTION OF ORTHODOXIES AND HETERODOXIES IN THE EARLY VICTORIAN LIFE SCIENCES 24 ALISON WINTER 3 THE PROBABLE AND THE POSSIBLE IN EARLY VICTORIAN ENGLAND 51 JOAN L. RICHARDS V 4 VICTORIAN ECONOMICS AND THE SCIENCE OF MIND 72 MARGARET SCHABAS 5 BIOLOGY AND POLITICS: DEFINING THE BOUNDARIES 94 MARTIN FICHMAN 6 REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES: DARWINIAN SCIENCE AND VICTORIAN WOMEN INTELLECTUALS 119 EVELLEEN RICHARDS 7 SATIRE AND SCIENCE IN VICTORIAN CULTURE 14 3 JAMES G. PARADIS PART TWO ORDERING NATURE 8 ORDERING NATURE: REVISIONING VICTORIAN SCIENCE CULTURE 179 BARBARA T. GATES VI CONTENTS 9 THE VOICES OF NATURE : POPULARIZING VICTORIAN SCIENCE 187 BERNARD LIGHTMAN 10 SCIENCE AND THE SECULARIZATION OF VICTORIAN IMAGES OF RACE 212 DOUGLAS A. LORIMER 11 ELEGANT RECREATIONS? CONFIGURING SCIENCE WRITING FOR WOMEN 236 ANN B. SHTEIR 12 STRANGE NEW WORLDS OF SPACE AND TIME: LATE VICTORIAN SCIENCE AND SCIENCE FICTION 256 PAUL FAYTER PART THREE PRACTICING SCIENCE 13 PRACTICING SCIENCE: AN INTRODUCTION 283 FRANK M. TURNER 14 WALLACE S MALTHUSIAN MOMENT: THE COMMON CONTEXT REVISITED 290 JAMES MOORE 15 DOING SCIENCE IN A GLOBAL EMPIRE: CABLE TELEGRAPHY AND ELECTRICAL PHYSICS IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN 312 BRUCE J. HUNT 16 ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE AND THE EMPIRE OF VICTORIAN SCIENCE 334 HARRIET RITVO 17 REMAINS OF THE DAY: EARLY VICTORIANS IN THE FIELD 354 JANE CAMERINI 18 PHOTOGRAPHY AS WITNESS, DETECTIVE, AND IMPOSTOR: VISUAL REPRESENTATION IN VICTORIAN SCIENCE 378 JENNIFER TUCKER 19 INSTRUMENTATION AND INTERPRETATION: MANAGING AND REPRESENTING THE WORKING ENVIRONMENTS OF VICTORIAN EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE 409 GRAEME J. N. GOODAY 20 METROLOGY, METRICATION, AND VICTORIAN VALUES 438 SIMON SCHAFFER CONTRIBUTORS 475 INDEX ILL
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