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Vienna in the age of uncertainty : science, liberalism, and private life / Deborah R. Coen.
LIBRA DB844.E98 C64 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coen, Deborah R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Exner family.
- Vienna (Austria)--Biography.
- Vienna (Austria).
- Vienna (Austria)--Intellectual life.
- Intellectual life.
- Austria--Vienna.
- Intellectuals--Austria--Vienna--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 380 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Introduction : a scientific dynasty
- The mind set free : preparing a liberal society in the 1840s
- In the stream of the world : coming of age in the 1860s
- Memory images : models of reason in the liberal age
- The pigtail of the nineteenth century : determinism in the 1880s
- Afterlife : inheritance at the fin de siècle
- The education of the normal eye : visual learning circa 1900
- Citizens of the most probable state : the politics of learning, 1908
- Into the open : measuring uncertainty, 1900-1918
- The irreplaceable eye : visual statistics, 1914-1926
- Conclusion : a family's legacy
- Appendix : the Exner-Frisch family tree
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-373) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226111733
- 9780226111735
- OCLC:
- 701208980
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