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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Thomas Huxley"”.
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Patrick Geddes: Synthetic Vision
… with other sciences. A biologist, trained by Thomas Huxley, Geddes borrowed the practices of the microscopical laboratory in creating the Outlook Tower in Edinburgh, Scotland which served as a model for an approach to the study of cities. His method was like that of a field botanist studying a …
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Scientific naturalists and the government of the Royal Society 1850-1900
… group of scientific naturalists who surrounded Thomas Huxley. Their personal ambitions and energetic support of the cause of' scientific naturalism contributed to an extremely vigourous phase of the Royal Society's history. A detailed coverage is provided of the spectacular rise and surprisingly …
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Adaptations of the Beautiful: Natural Theological Aesthetics from Paley to Darwin
… of figures such as Richard Owen or the young Huxley. I will argue that figures associated with morphological thought utilised the same aesthetic theory and arguments as the natural theological adaptationists they critiqued, and so CROE remained a durable structure of thought across apparently …