Energy & entropy : science and culture in Victorian Britain : essays from Victorian studies / Patrick Brantlinger, editor.
| Other author/creator | Brantlinger, Patrick, 1941- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1989. |
| Description | xxii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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| Contents | Introduction: Zadig's method revisited / Patrick Brantlinger -- Science and intellectual authority in mid-nineteenth-century Britain: Robert Chambers and Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation / Richard Yeo -- Lady Lovelace's notes: Technical text and cultural context / Dorothy K. Stein -- King of Siluria: Roderick Murchison and the imperial theme in geology / James A. Secord -- Providence and putrefaction: Victorian sanitarians and the natural theology of health and disease / Christopher Hamlin -- At the intersection of mathematics and humor: Lewis Carroll's Alices and symbolical algebra / Helena M. Pycior -- The social origins and post-graduate careers of a Cambridge intellectual elite, 1830-1860 / Harvey W. Becher. |
| Contents | (cont.) A physicist's alternative to materialism: The religious thought of George Gabriel Stokes / David B. Wilson -- T.H. Huxley's rhetoric and the popularization of Victorian scientific ideas: 1854-1874 / Ed Block, Jr. -- The "worldly philosophy" of William Stanley Jevons / Margaret Schabas -- Dr. Acton's enemy: Medicine, sex, and society in Victorian England / M. Jeanne Peterson -- Museums and ideology: Augustus Pitt-Rivers, anthropological museums, and social change in later Victorian Britain / David K. van Keuren -- Abbott's Flatland: Scientific imagination and "natural Christianity" / Rosemary Jann -- Nineteenth-century popularizations of thermodynamics and the rhetoric of social prophecy / Greg Myers. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other title | Victorian studies. |
| Other title | Energy and entropy. |
| LCCN | 87046250 |
| ISBN | 0253319285 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | Q175.52.G7 E54 1989 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |