
Victorian Science in Context
by Lightman, Bernard-
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Summary
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | |
Defining Knowledge: An Introduction | |
The Construction of Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in the Early Victorian Life Sciences | |
The Probable and the Possible in Early Victorian England | |
Victorian Economics and the Science of Mind | |
Biology and Politics: Defining the Boundaries | |
Redrawing the Boundaries: Darwinian Science and Victorian Women Intellectuals | |
Satire and Science in Victorian Culture | |
Ordering Nature: Revisioning Victorian Science Culture | |
"The Voices of Nature": Popularizing Victorian Science | |
Science and the Secularization of Victorian Images of Race | |
Elegant Recreations? Configuring Science Writing for Women Ann B. Shteir | |
Strange New Worlds of Space and Time: Late Victorian Science and Science Fiction | |
Practicing Science: An Introduction | |
Wallace's Malthusian Moment: The Common Context Revisited | |
Doing Science in a Global Empire: Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in Victorian Britain | |
Zoological Nomenclature and the Empire of Victorian Science | |
Remains of the Day: Early Victorians in the Field | |
Photography as Witness, Detective, and Impostor: Visual Representation in Victorian Science | |
Instrumentation and Interpretation: Managing and Representing the Working Environments of Victorian Experimental Science | |
Metrology, Metrication, and Victorian Values Simon Schaffer Contributors | |
Index | |
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