Bøger af Bernard Lightman
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623,95 kr. A Complex and Innovative Analysis of Discipline Formation in Nineteenth-Century Science
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633,95 kr. How Intellectuals and Global Publics Viewed the Relationship between Evolution and Diverse Religious Traditions
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- Community, Identity, Continuity
583,95 kr. 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.
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659,95 kr. Victorians were fascinated by the strange new worlds which science was revealing to them. This study sets out to capture the essence of this fascination, charting the many ways in which science influenced and was influenced by the larger Victorian culture.
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- 659,95 kr.
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- Designing Nature for New Audiences
460,95 - 833,95 kr. Focuses on the journalists and writers who wrote about science for a general audience in the second half of the nineteenth century. This title examines more than thirty of the popularizers of the day, investigating how they communicated with their audience. It offers insights into the role of women in scientific inquiry.
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- The 'Darwinians' and their Critics
639,95 - 1.924,95 kr. Argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. This book presents a collection of essays that deal with the evolutionary naturalists, especially biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, physicist John Tyndall, and philosopher of evolution, Herbert Spencer.
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- 639,95 kr.