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Title:

Victorian scientific naturalism : community, identity, continuity / edited by Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

viii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Naturalism--History--19th century.
Naturalism--Religious aspects.
Science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Science--Social aspects--Great Britain--19th century.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Other Authors:

Dawson, Gowan, editor of compilation.
Lightman, Bernard V., 1950- editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman -- "The Great O. versus the Jermyn St. Pet" : Huxley, Falconer, and Owen on paleontological method / Gowan Dawson -- Evolutionary naturalism on high : the Victorians sequester the Alps / Michael S. Reidy -- Paradox : the art of scientific naturalism / George Levine -- Huxley and the Devonshire Commission / Bernard Lightman -- Economies of scales : evolutionary naturalists and the Victorian examination system / James Elwick -- Odd man out : was Joseph Hooker an evolutionary naturalist? / Jim Endersby -- Sunday lecture societies : naturalistic scientists, unitarians, and secularists unite against sabbatarian legislation / Ruth Barton -- The conduct of belief : agnosticism, the Metaphysical Society, and the formation of intellectual communities / Paul White -- Where naturalism and theism met : the uniformity of nature / Matthew Stanley -- The fate of scientific naturalism : from public sphere to professional exclusivity / Theodore M. Porter -- The successors to the X Club? : Late Victorian naturalists and nature, 1869-1900 / Melinda Baldwin -- From agnosticism to rationalism : evolutionary biologists, the Rationalist Press Association, and early twentieth-century scientific naturalism / Peter J. Bowler -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography of major works on scientific naturalism.

ISBN:

022610950X (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226109503 (cloth : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)858778268

LCCN:

2013036679

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)