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Book Remarks on Some Passages in the Review of  Principles of General and Comparative Physiology  in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal  January 1840

Download or read book Remarks on Some Passages in the Review of Principles of General and Comparative Physiology in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal January 1840 written by William B. Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal

Download or read book Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mesmerized

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alison Winter
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1998-12
  • ISBN : 9780226902197
  • Pages : 488 pages

Download or read book Mesmerized written by Alison Winter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Invitation to the Seance1: Discovery of the Island of Mesmeria 2: Animal Magnetism Comes to London 3: Experimental Subjects as Scientific Instruments 4: Carnival, Chapel, and Pantomime 5: The Peripatetic Power of the "New Science" 6: Consultations, Conversaziones, and Institutions 7: The Invention of Anesthesia and the Redefinition of Pain 8: Colonizing Sensations in Victorian India9: Emanations from the Sickroom 10: The Mesmeric Cure of Souls 11: Expertise, Common Sense, and the Territories of Science 12: The Social Body and the Invention of Consensus Conclusion: The Day after the Feast Notes Bibliography Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book Victorian Sensation

    Book Details:
  • Author : James A. Secord
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 0226744116
  • Pages : 646 pages

Download or read book Victorian Sensation written by James A. Secord and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is where our own public controversies about evolution began.".

Book Victorian Science in Context

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernard Lightman
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2008-07-31
  • ISBN : 0226481107
  • Pages : 499 pages

Download or read book Victorian Science in Context written by Bernard Lightman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Reading the Book of Nature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan R. Topham
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2022-10-12
  • ISBN : 0226815765
  • Pages : 590 pages

Download or read book Reading the Book of Nature written by Jonathan R. Topham and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-10-12 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Darwin returned to Britain from the Beagle voyage in 1836, the most talked-about scientific books were the Bridgewater Treatises. This series of eight books was funded by a bequest of the last Earl of Bridgewater, and they were authored by leading men of science, appointed by the President of the Royal Society, and intended to explore "the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation." Securing public attention beyond all expectations, the series gave Darwin's generation a range of approaches to one of the great questions of the age: how to incorporate the newly emerging disciplinary sciences into Britain's overwhelmingly Christian culture. Drawing on a wealth of archival and published sources, including many unexplored by historians, Jonathan R. Topham examines how and to what extent the series contributed to a sense of congruence between Christianity and the sciences in the generation before the infamous Victorian "conflict between science and religion." He does so by drawing on the distinctive insights of book history, using close attention to the production, circulation, and use of the books to open up new perspectives not only on aspects of early Victorian science but also on the whole subject of science and religion. Its innovative focus on practices of authorship, publishing, and reading helps us to understand the everyday considerations and activities through which the religious culture of early Victorian science was fashioned. And in doing so, Reading the Book of Nature powerfully reimagines the world in which a young Charles Darwin learned how to think about the implications of his theory"--

Book The Politics of Evolution

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  • Author : Adrian Desmond
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2011-02-15
  • ISBN : 0226144534
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book The Politics of Evolution written by Adrian Desmond and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for the first time at the cut-price anatomy schools rather than genteel Oxbridge, Desmond winkles out pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas in reform-minded and politically charged early nineteenth-century London. In the process, he reveals the underside of London intellectual and social life in the generation before Darwin as it has never been seen before. "The Politics of Evolution is intellectual dynamite, and certainly one of the most important books in the history of science published during the past decade."—Jim Secord, Times Literary Supplement "One of those rare books that not only stakes out new territory but demands a radical overhaul of conventional wisdom."—John Hedley Brooke, Times Higher Education Supplement

Book Darwin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adrian J. Desmond
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780393311501
  • Pages : 910 pages

Download or read book Darwin written by Adrian J. Desmond and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In lively and accessible style, the authors tell how Darwin came to his world-changing conclusions and how he kept his thoughts secret for twenty years. Hailed as the definitive biography, this book explains Darwin's paradox and offers a window on Victorian science, theology, and mores. Contains a wealth of new information and 90 photographs.

Book Catalogue of the Scientific Books in the Library of the Royal Society

Download or read book Catalogue of the Scientific Books in the Library of the Royal Society written by Royal Society (Great Britain). Library and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Scientific Books in the Library

Download or read book Catalogue of the Scientific Books in the Library written by Royal Society (Great Britain). and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Other Evolutionary Writings

Download or read book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Other Evolutionary Writings written by Robert Chambers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-08-15 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1844, Vestiges sparked one of the great intellectual controversies of the century. Integrating research in anthropology, geology, astronony, biology, economics, and chemistry, it was the first attempt to connect the natural sciences into a history of creation. The author, whose identity was not revealed until 1884, was Robert Chambers (1802-71), a leading Scottish writer and publisher. Vestiges reached a huge popular audience in Europe and America and was widely read by the social and intellectual elite. It fostered debate about natural law, setting the stage for the controversy over Darwin's Origin. In response to criticism, Chambers published Explanations: A Sequel, which offered a reasoned defense of his ideas about progressive development, castigating what he saw as the narrowness of specialist science. This volume, which also includes Chambers's earliest cosmological writings, a bibliography of reviews, and a comprehensive new index, illuminates the changing meanings of science and religion in the Victorian era and the rise of secular ideologies in Western culture. -- from back cover.

Book Book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Society

Download or read book Book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Society written by Royal Society (Great Britain). Library and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pathological Anatomy of the Human Body

Download or read book The Pathological Anatomy of the Human Body written by Julius Vogel and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Special anatomy and histology

Download or read book Special anatomy and histology written by William E. Horner and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Outlines of Physiology  Human and Comparative

Download or read book Outlines of Physiology Human and Comparative written by John Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British and Foreign Medical Review

Download or read book The British and Foreign Medical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres  Arts  Sciences   c

Download or read book Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres Arts Sciences c written by and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: