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PublisherIndiana University Press
ISBN-100253319285
ISBN-139780253319289
eBay Product ID (ePID)68597
Product Key Features
Number of Pages380 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameEnergy and Entropy : Science and Culture in Victorian Britain
Publication Year1989
SubjectPhilosophy & Social Aspects, Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), General, Europe / Great Britain / General, History
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaScience, History
AuthorPatrick M. Brantlinger
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight28 Oz
Item Length9.8 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN87-046250
Dewey Edition19
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306/.45/0941
Table Of ContentACKNOWLEDGMENTS 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
Synopsis --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.|9780253319289|, "... important and admirable... " --Victorian Studies "... presents a good picture of many currents of thought that flowed through the Victorian mind, particularly those of a religious nature."--History "The overall standard of these essays is very high.... should win a deserved place upon our students' reading lists." --ISIS An 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., " . . . important and admirable . . . " --Victorian Studies " . . . presents a good picture of many currents of thought that flowed through the Victorian mind, particularly those of a religious nature."--History "The overall standard of these essays is very high. . . . should win a deserved place upon our students' reading lists." --ISIS An 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.
LC Classification NumberQ175.52.G7E54 1989
