Victorian Science And Imagery
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Victorian Science And Imagery
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Author : Nancy Rose Marshall
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2021-07-27
Victorian Science And Imagery written by Nancy Rose Marshall and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-27 with Science categories.
The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and when art and visual culture produced new notions about the place of the human in the natural world. Just as scientists relied on graphic representation to conceptualize their ideas, artists moved seamlessly between scientific debate and creative expression to support or contradict popular scientific theories—such as Darwin’s theory of evolution and sexual selection—deliberately drawing on concepts in ways that allowed them to refute popular claims or disrupt conventional knowledges. Focusing on the close kinship between the arts and sciences during the Victorian period, the art historians contributing to this volume reveal the unique ways in which nineteenth-century British and American visual culture participated in making science, and in which science informed art at a crucial moment in the history of the development of the modern world. Together, they explore topics in geology, meteorology, medicine, anatomy, evolution, and zoology, as well as a range of media from photography to oil painting. They remind us that science and art are not tightly compartmentalized, separate influences. Rather, these are fields that share forms, manifest as waves, layers, lines, or geometries; that invest in the idea of the evolution of form; and that generate surprisingly kindred responses, such as pain, pleasure, empathy, and sympathy.
Victorian Science In Context
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Author : Bernard Lightman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-07-31
Victorian Science In Context written by Bernard Lightman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-31 with Science categories.
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.
Science In Wonderland
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Author : Melanie Keene
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-03-26
Science In Wonderland written by Melanie Keene and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-26 with Science categories.
In Victorian Britain an array of writers captured the excitement of new scientific discoveries, and enticed young readers and listeners into learning their secrets, by converting introductory explanations into quirky, charming, and imaginative fairy-tales; forces could be fairies, dinosaurs could be dragons, and looking closely at a drop of water revealed a soup of monsters. Science in Wonderland explores how these stories were presented and read. Melanie Keene introduces and analyses a range of Victorian scientific fairy-tales, from nursery classics such as The Water-Babies to the little-known Wonderland of Evolution, or the story of insect lecturer Fairy Know-a-Bit. In exploring the ways in which authors and translators - from Hans Christian Andersen and Edith Nesbit to the pseudonymous 'A.L.O.E.' and 'Acheta Domestica' - reconciled the differing demands of factual accuracy and fantastical narratives, Keene asks why the fairies and their tales were chosen as an appropriate new form for capturing and presenting scientific and technological knowledge to young audiences. Such stories, she argues, were an important way in which authors and audiences criticised, communicated, and celebrated contemporary scientific ideas, practices, and objects.
Strange Science
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Author : Lara Pauline Karpenko
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2017
Strange Science written by Lara Pauline Karpenko and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
A fascinating look at scientific inquiry during the Victorian period and the shifting boundary between mainstream and unorthodox sciences of the time
The Science Of History In Victorian Britain
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Author : Ian Hesketh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-22
The Science Of History In Victorian Britain written by Ian Hesketh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-22 with History categories.
Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources – monographs, lectures, correspondence – from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.
The Creed Of Science In Victorian England
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Author : Roy M. MacLeod
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-10-28
The Creed Of Science In Victorian England written by Roy M. MacLeod and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-28 with History categories.
The nineteenth century, which saw the triumph of the idea of progress and improvement, saw also the triumph of science as a political and cultural force. In England, as science and its methods claimed privilege and space, its language acquired the vocabulary of religion. The new ’creed’ of science embraced what John Tyndall called the ’scientific movement’; it was, in the language of T.H. Huxley, a militant creed. The ’march’ of invention, the discoveries of chemistry, and the wonders of steam and electricity culminated in a crusade against ignorance and unbelief. It was a creed that looked to its own apostolic succession from Copernicus, Galileo and the martyrs of the ’scientific revolution’. Yet, it was a creed whose doctrines were divisive, and whose convictions resisted. Alongside arguments for materialism, utility, positivism, and evolutionary naturalism, persisted reservations about the nature of man, the role of ethics, and the limits of scientific method. These essays discuss leading strategists in the scientific movement of late-Victorian England. At the same time, they show how ’science established’ served not only the scientific community, but also the interests of imperial and colonial powers.
Burke And Wills
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Author : Edmund Bernard Joyce
language : en
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Release Date : 2011-11-02
Burke And Wills written by Edmund Bernard Joyce and has been published by CSIRO PUBLISHING this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-02 with History categories.
Reveals for the first time the true extent and limits of the scientific achievements of the Burke and Wills Expedition.
Charles Darwin And Victorian Visual Culture
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Author : Jonathan Smith
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-07-06
Charles Darwin And Victorian Visual Culture written by Jonathan Smith and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A highly illustrated account of Darwin's visual representations of his theories, and their influence on Victorian literature, art and culture, first published in 2006.
Science In Victorian Manchester
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Author : Kargon, Robert H.
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Science In Victorian Manchester written by Kargon, Robert H. and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Scientific Revolution In Victorian Medicine
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Author : A. J. Youngson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1979
The Scientific Revolution In Victorian Medicine written by A. J. Youngson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Anesthesia categories.