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The age of scientific naturalism : Tyndall and his contemporaries
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- Creator
- edited by Bernard Lightman and Michael S. Reidy
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London ; Brookfield, Vermont : Pickering & Chatto, 2014
- ©2014
- Physical Details
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- xv, 256 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781848934634, 1848934637, 9781781444078, 9781781440858
- OCLC
- ocn864090133
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-245) and index.
- Introduction : John Tyndall, scientific naturalism and modes of communication / Michael S. Reidy -- Saving the world in the age of entropy : John Tyndall and the second law of thermodynamics / Elizabeth Neswald -- Getting past the greenhouse : John Tyndall and the nineteenth-century history of climate change / Joshua P. Howe -- Tyndall, Lewes and popular representations of scientific authority in Victorian Britain / Jeremiah Rankin and Ruth Barton -- Herbert Spencer and the metaphysical roots of evolutionary naturalism / Michael W. Taylor -- Evolutionary mathematics : William Kingdon Clifford's use of Spencerian evolutionism / Josipa Petrunic -- The 'great plan of the visible universe' : William Huggins, evolutionary naturalism and the nature of the nebulae / Robert W. Smith -- Alfred Newton : the scientific naturalist who wasn't / Jonathan Smith -- Corresponding naturalists / Janet Browne -- Tyndall and Stokes : correspondence, referee reports and the physical sciences in Victorian Britain / Melinda Baldwin -- Science at the Metaphysical Society : defining knowledge in the 1870s / Bernard Lightman
Subjects
- Tyndall, John, 1820-1893.
- Tyndall, John, 1820-1893 -- Influence.
- Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Naturalism -- Religious aspects.
- Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century.
- Religion and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Scientific literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Great Britain.