Over the years questions have been raised about the cohesiveness and the cultural status of scientific naturalism, and this book brings together the latest scholarship, offering a series of new perspectives that produce a radically different understanding of the movement. Well known scientific naturalists, such as Thomas Henry Huxley, John Tyndall, Herbert Spencer, and Leslie Stephen are considered, but so are less well-known members of the group and figures who are not often thought of as scientific naturalists but who ...
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Over the years questions have been raised about the cohesiveness and the cultural status of scientific naturalism, and this book brings together the latest scholarship, offering a series of new perspectives that produce a radically different understanding of the movement. Well known scientific naturalists, such as Thomas Henry Huxley, John Tyndall, Herbert Spencer, and Leslie Stephen are considered, but so are less well-known members of the group and figures who are not often thought of as scientific naturalists but who made significant contributions to the movement."Victorian Scientific Naturalism"makes plain that scientific naturalism had a second generation of followers who both venerated and simultaneously critiqued their celebrated forebears, maintaining certain aspects of their agenda into the early twentieth century, even while markedly transmuting others."
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New. Examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite. Editor(s): Dawson, Gowan; Lightman, Bernard. Num Pages: 368 pages, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 3JH; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 634. 2014. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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