Format:
1 online resource (223 pages)
ISBN:
9781139145923
Series Statement:
Cambridge Science Biographies
Content:
This biography of Thomas Huxley reflects on the historical significance of scientific authority.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Science at Home -- Imperial and Sentimental -- A Woman's Writing -- Improvement by Domestication -- Pressing Points of Economy -- Conclusion: Fairylands of Science -- 2 Gentlemen of Science? -- The Survey Man -- The British Cuvier -- The "Genius" -- Instituting Biology -- Why Darwin's Bulldog? -- Conclusion: Rag-and-Bone Men -- 3 Science as Culture -- Science Writing and the Periodical Press -- Literature and Liberal Education -- Friends and Enemies of Culture -- Scientific Imagination -- Conclusion: One Culture or Two? -- 4 The Worship of Science -- Holy Man -- A Broad Church -- The Classroom -- Conclusion: Metaphysical Society behind Closed Doors -- 5 "Darkest England -- "A Copious Shuffler" -- Land, Leadership, and Learning -- Arming for War -- The General's Scheme -- "A Fair and Adequate Trial" -- Conclusion: The Limits of Evolution -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Government Documents -- Other Primary and Secondary Sources -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
9780521640190
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe White, Paul Thomas Huxley Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521640199
Additional Edition:
0521649676
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Keywords:
Huxley, Thomas Henry 1825-1895
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