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Cosmology and the scientific self in the nineteenth century : astronomic emotions
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- Creator
- Howard Carlton
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
- ©2022
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (316 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9783031052798, 9783031052811, 9783031052828, 9783031052804
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About the Book -- Contents -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Crisis and Cosmology: The Subtle Interactions of Mind, Body and Belief -- Experience, Emotions and Weltmodelle -- Victorian Experiences of Illness and Death -- Psychotropic Drugs in the Nineteenth Century -- Victorian Religion -- Subjects and Sources -- Structure of This Book -- Astronomic Emotions -- Part II: The Extraterrestrial Life Debate -- Chapter 2: Planets and Pluralism: How Many Revelations Are Required to Redeem the Entire Universe? -- The Origins of Pluralism -- Thomas Paine and the Age of Reason -- Supporters and Opponents of Paine's Thesis -- William Paley's Natural Theology -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Interstellar Imperialism -- Chapter 3: "In Yonder Hundred Million Spheres": Thomas Chalmers and His Conversion to Pluralism -- Chalmers' Conversion Experience -- The Influence of Blaise Pascal -- Chalmers and the Age of the Earth -- Chalmers Addresses the 'Astronomical Objection' -- Chalmers' Theology and Political Economics -- Extraterrestrial Evangelism -- Chapter 4: "What Is Man if Thou Art Mindful of Him?": William Whewell and the Unique Revelation -- William Whewell's Declining Support for Pluralism -- Whewell's Response to Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation -- Of the Plurality of Worlds: An Essay -- Cordelia Whewell's Terminal Illness -- The Essay: Whewell's Response to His Wife's Illness and a Rebuttal of Chalmers -- Whewell and Politics -- Cosmology as Consolation -- Chapter 5: Richard Proctor and Private Judgement -- Proctor's Conversion to Catholicism -- Proctor and Pluralism -- John Tyndall and the Belfast Address -- Proctor's Response to Catholic Critics -- Heterodox Theological Views of Proctor and His Colleagues -- Universal Evolution -- Untitled -- Part III: The Nebular Hypothesis
- Chapter 6: John Pringle Nichol, the Nebular Hypothesis and Progressive Cosmogony -- Origins of the Nebular Hypothesis -- John Pringle Nichol's Early Career in Polemics -- Nichol's Breakdown -- Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow -- Nichol's Exposition of the Nebular Hypothesis -- Nichol's Political Views Post 1836 -- Nichol and Continuous Creation -- Progressive Evolution -- Chapter 7: "And Eddied into Suns, that Wheeling Cast/The Planets": Rosse, Robinson and the Leviathan of Parsonstown -- The Leviathan of Parsonstown -- Laurence Parsons and the Death of John Clere Parsons -- Political Upheavals and the Irish Famine -- Rosse, Robinson and Early Observations of the Nebulae -- Mechanical Objectivity and the Art of Drawing -- Artistic Responses to the Leviathan and the Orion Nebula -- Nichol's Initial Response to the 'Resolvability' of the Orion Nebula -- Chapter 8: "In Tracts of Fluent Heat Began": Nichol Defends and Develops Nebular Cosmogony -- Nichol Reframes the Birr Castle Observations -- Nichol's Lecture Tours -- Reception of Nichol's Presentations -- John Herschel: Development of a Recognised Authority -- John Herschel and the Nebular Hypothesis -- The Emergence of Doubt -- The Stellar Universe -- Opiate Addiction -- Support from William Whewell and Herbert Spencer -- The Elusiveness of Objectivity in the Making of Cosmogonies -- Part IV: The Ages of the Earth and Sun -- Chapter 9: "And Murmurs from the Dying Sun": William Thomson, Thermodynamics and Theology -- The North British Physicists -- Scottish Education -- William Thomson's Upbringing and Early Career -- Geological and Biological Time -- Thomson's Intervention in Temporal Debates -- The Law of Dissipation and Human Longevity -- William Thomson, Consciousness and Atomic Theory -- Chronology, Chloroform and Calvinism
- Chapter 10: The North Britons: Physics and Metaphysics -- Fleeming Jenkin and the Chronology Debate -- Peter Guthrie Tait's Support for William Thomson -- James Clerk Maxwell and Free Will -- Balfour Stewart and Joseph Norman Lockyer -- Further Contributions from Jenkin and Maxwell -- The Unseen Universe -- The North British Group and the Immaterial Universe -- Bibliography -- Archive Sources -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Bibliography of Secondary Sources -- Index