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Species, serpents, spirits, and skulls : science at the margins of the Victorian age
- Author(s):
- Lyons, Sherrie Lynne, 1947-
- Title(s):
- Species, serpents, spirits, and skulls : science at the margins of the Victorian age / Sherrie Lynne Lyons.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Publisher:
- Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.
- Description:
- xiv, 245 p. : ill.
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Language:
- English
- ISBN:
- 9781438427973 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1438427972 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN:
- 2008054150
- MeSH:
- History, 19th Century
Science*
United Kingdom
- Notes:
- NLM copy has dust jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- NLM ID:
- 101519772 [Book]