Energy and Entropy – Science and Culture in Victorian Britain
Autor Patrick M. Brantlingeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 mar 1989
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780253319289
ISBN-10: 0253319285
Pagini: 380
Dimensiuni: 156 x 248 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
ISBN-10: 0253319285
Pagini: 380
Dimensiuni: 156 x 248 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Notă biografică
edited by Patrick M. Brantlinger
Cuprins
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: ZADIG'S METHOD REVISITED
PATRICK BRANTLINGER
Science and Intellectual Authority in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain: Robert Chambers and Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Richard Yeo
Lady Lovelace's Notes: Technical Text and Cultural Context
Dorothy K. Stein
King of Suluria: Roderick Murchison and the Imperial Theme in Geology
James A. Secord
Providence and Putrefaction: Victorian Sanitarians and the Natural Theology of Health and Disease
Christopher Hamlin
At the Intersection of Mathematics and Humor: Lewis Carroll's Alices and Symbolical Algebra
Helena M. Pycior
The Social Origins and Post-Graduate Careers of a Cambridge Intellectual Elite, 1830-1860
Harvey W. Becher
A Physicist's Alternative to Materialism: The Religious Thought of George Gabriel Stokes
David B. Wilson
T.H. Huxley's Rhtoric and the Popularization of Victorian Scientific Ideas: 1854-1874
Ed Block, Jr.
The "Worldly Philosophy" of William Stanley Jevons
Margaret Schabas
Dr. Acton's Enemy: Medicine, Sex, and Society in Victorian England
M. Jeanne Peterson
Museums and Ideology: AUgustus Pitt-Rivers, Anthropological Museums, and Social Change in Later Victorian Britain
David K. van Keuren
Abbott's Flatland: Scientific Imagination and Natural Christianity
Rosemary Jann
Nineteenth-Century Popularizations of Thermodynamics and the Rhetoric of Social Prophecy
Greg Myers
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
INTRODUCTION: ZADIG'S METHOD REVISITED
PATRICK BRANTLINGER
Science and Intellectual Authority in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain: Robert Chambers and Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Richard Yeo
Lady Lovelace's Notes: Technical Text and Cultural Context
Dorothy K. Stein
King of Suluria: Roderick Murchison and the Imperial Theme in Geology
James A. Secord
Providence and Putrefaction: Victorian Sanitarians and the Natural Theology of Health and Disease
Christopher Hamlin
At the Intersection of Mathematics and Humor: Lewis Carroll's Alices and Symbolical Algebra
Helena M. Pycior
The Social Origins and Post-Graduate Careers of a Cambridge Intellectual Elite, 1830-1860
Harvey W. Becher
A Physicist's Alternative to Materialism: The Religious Thought of George Gabriel Stokes
David B. Wilson
T.H. Huxley's Rhtoric and the Popularization of Victorian Scientific Ideas: 1854-1874
Ed Block, Jr.
The "Worldly Philosophy" of William Stanley Jevons
Margaret Schabas
Dr. Acton's Enemy: Medicine, Sex, and Society in Victorian England
M. Jeanne Peterson
Museums and Ideology: AUgustus Pitt-Rivers, Anthropological Museums, and Social Change in Later Victorian Britain
David K. van Keuren
Abbott's Flatland: Scientific Imagination and Natural Christianity
Rosemary Jann
Nineteenth-Century Popularizations of Thermodynamics and the Rhetoric of Social Prophecy
Greg Myers
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX