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Species, serpents, spirits, and skulls : science at the margins in the Victorian age / Sherrie Lynne Lyons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lyons, Sherrie Lynne, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Science.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (263 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the distinctions between science and pseudoscience.
- Contents:
- Introduction : an age of transition
- Swimming at the edges of scientific respectability : sea serpents, Charles Lyell, and the professionalization of geology
- Franz Gall, Johann Spurzheim, George Combe and phrenology : a science for everyone
- The crisis in faith : William Crookes and spiritualism
- Morals and materialism : Alfred Russel Wallace, spiritualism, and the problem of evolution
- Thatige skepsis : Thomas Huxley and evolutionary theory
- Negotiating the boundaries of science : an ongoing process.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438428024
- 1438428022
- 9781441629722
- 1441629726
- OCLC:
- 802049968
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