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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bernard V Lightman |
| ISBN: | 9780754659877 0754659879 |
| OCLC Number: | 267048049 |
| Description: | 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction; Science, scientists and the public: the contested meanings of science in Victorian Britain; Victorian sciences and religions: discordant harmonies; 'Robert Elsmere' and the agnostic crises of faith; Interpreting agnosticism as a nonconformist sect: T.H. Huxley's 'new reformation; Scientists as materialists in the periodical press: Tyndall's Belfast address; Huxley and scientific agnosticism: the strange history of a failed rhetorical strategy; Ideology, evolution, and late-Victorian agnostic popularizers;' Fighting even with death': Balfour, scientific naturalism, and Thomas Henry Huxley's final battle; Butler, natural theology and Victorian popularization; 'Voices of nature': popularizers of Victorian science; Frank Buckland and the resilience of natural theology: curiosity of natural history?; Science and the postmodern crisis; Index. |
| Series Title: | Collected studies, CS919. |
| Responsibility: | Bernard Lightman. |
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