Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund

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Format: VIII, 489 S. , Ill., Kt. , 24 cm

ISBN: 0226481115 , 0226481123 , 9780226481128

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Defining knowledge: an introduction , Literaturangaben , 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 , 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

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Lightman, Bernard Victorian Science in Context. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 ISBN 9780226481104

Language: English

Subjects: Natural Sciences

Keywords: Großbritannien ; Kultur ; Naturwissenschaften ; Geschichte 1837-1901 ; Konferenzschrift

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Verlagsangaben

Author information: Lightman, Bernard V. 1950-

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Format: 1 online resource (499 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-283-05839-1 , 9786613058393 , 0-226-48110-7

Content: 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 radical idea that humans might be descended from apes drew crowds to heated debates. Men and women of all social classes avidly collected scientific specimens for display in their homes and devoured literature about science and its practitioners. Victorian Science in Context captures the essence of this fascination, charting the many ways in which science influenced and was influenced by the larger Victorian culture. Contributions from leading scholars in history, literature, and the history of science explore questions such as: What did science mean to the Victorians? For whom was Victorian science written? What ideological messages did it convey? The contributors show how practical concerns interacted with contextual issues to mold Victorian science-which in turn shaped much of the relationship between modern science and culture.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , pt. 1. Defining knowledge -- pt. 2. Ordering nature -- pt. 3. Practicing science. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-226-48112-3

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-226-48111-5

Language: English

Subjects: Natural Sciences

DOI: 10.7208/9780226481104