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Species, serpents, spirits, and skulls science at the margins of the Victorian age
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- ISBN: 9781441629722 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1441629726 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (xiv, 245 p.) : ill. - Publisher: Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : an age of transition -- Swimming at the edges of scientific respectability : sea serpents, Charles Lyell, and the professionalization of geology -- Franz Gall, Johann Spurzheim, George Combe, and phrenology : a science for everyone -- The crisis in faith : William Crookes and spiritualism -- Morals and materialism : Alfred Russel Wallace, spiritualism, and the problem of evolution -- Thatige skepsis : Thomas Huxley and evolutionary theory -- Negotiating the boundaries of science : an ongoing process. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | SCIENCE -- History Intellectual life Science Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century Great Britain |
| Genre: | History. Electronic books. |
