Victorian science in context, edited by Bernard Lightman

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Label

Victorian science in context, edited by Bernard Lightman

Statement of responsibility

edited by Bernard Lightman

Instantiates

• Victorian science in context

Publication

• Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago Press, 1997

Antecedent source

unknown

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category

online resource

Carrier category code

• cr

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Color

multicolored

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Defining knowledge: an introduction / George Levine -- The construction of orthodoxies and heterodoxies in the early Victorian life sciences / Alison Winter -- The probable and the possible in early Victorian England / Joan L. Richards -- Victorian economics and the science of mind / Margaret Schabas -- Biology and politics: defining the boundaries / Martin Fichman -- Redrawing the boundaries: Darwinian science and Victorian women intellectuals / Evelleen Richards -- Satire and science in Victorian culture / James G. Paradis -- Ordering nature: revisioning Victorian science culture / Barbara T. Gates -- 'The voices of nature': popularizing Victorian science / Bernard Lightman -- Science and the secularization of Victorian images of race / Douglas A. Lorimer -- Elegant recreations? Configuring science writing for women / Ann B. Shteir -- Strange new worlds of space and time: late Victorian science and science fiction / Paul Fayter -- Practicing science: an introduction / Frank M. Turner -- Wallace's Malthusian moment: the common context revisited / James Moore -- Doing science in a global empire: cable telegraphy and electrical physics in Victorian Britain / Bruce J. Hunt -- Zoological nomenclature and the empire of Victorian science / Harriet Ritvo -- Remains of the day: early Victorians in the field / Jane Camerini -- Photography as witness, detective, and impostor: visual representation in Victorian science / Jennifer Tucker -- Instrumentation and interpretation: managing and representing the working environments of Victorian experimental science / Graeme J.N. Gooday -- Metrology, metrication, and Victorian values / Simon Schaffer

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699511098

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Extent

1 online resource (viii, 489 pages)

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unknown

Form of item

online

Isbn

9786613058393

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unknown

Media category

computer

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• c

Other physical details

illustrations, maps

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not applicable

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.b127707645

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unknown

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unknown sound

Specific material designation

remote

System control number

(OCoLC)699511098