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Energy and Entropy – Science and Culture in Victorian Britain de Patrick M. Brantlinger

Energy and Entropy – Science and Culture in Victorian Britain

Autor Patrick M. Brantlinger
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 mar 1989
" -ISISAn outgrowth of a special issue of Victorian Studies, this volume has been expanded to include additional essays which broaden and enrich the collection, including essays on physics, mathematics, chemistry, economics, anthropology, and biology and how they influenced thought and literature in Victorian Britain.
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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

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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