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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Victorian science"”.
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From erewhon to nowhere: the impact of science on late-Victorian science fiction
… are as follows: • To investigate how late Victorian science fiction texts emerged in a period of dynamic epistemological change • To critique how representations of science were appropriated and naturalised in late Victorian science fiction texts. • To undertake a intertextual reading of …
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Scientific naturalists and the government of the Royal Society 1850-1900
… a largely unworked field within the history of Victorian science. As the principal forum for English science, the Royal Society was a crucial context for' the working out of the major changes in science over the period. The Society made its own singular responses to the developing needs of …
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On the origin of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' : science, religion, and the natural world in early Victorian Scotland
… this study highlights the importance of place in science, and how broader cultural influences combine with social interactions to shape interpretations of the natural world. Of particular significance in mid-nineteenth-century Edinburgh was a climate of transcendental and Romantic conceptions …