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Pages: 450
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-10 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Victorian Science in Context captures the essence of this fascination, charting the many ways in which science influenced and was influenced by the larger Victo
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Authors: Bernard Lightman
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-31 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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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
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Pages: 311
Authors: Lara Pauline Karpenko
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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A fascinating look at scientific inquiry during the Victorian period and the shifting boundary between mainstream and unorthodox sciences of the time
Reforming Philosophy
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Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The Victorian period in Britain was an “age of reform.” It is therefore not surprising that two of the era’s most eminent intellects described themselves
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time The Origin of Species was publis