Thomas Huxley: Making the 'Man of Science'

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Cambridge University Press, 2003 - Всего страниц: 205
Dubbed 'Darwin's Bulldog' for his combative role in the Victorian controversies over evolutionary theory, Thomas Huxley has been widely regarded as the epitome of the professional scientist who emerged in the nineteenth century from the restrictions of ecclesiastical authority and aristocratic patronage. Yet from the 1850s until his death in 1895, Huxley always defined himself as a 'man of science', a moral and religious figure, not a scientist. Exploring his relationships with his wife, fellow naturalists, clergymen and men of letters, White presents a new analysis of the authority of science, literature, and religion during the Victorian period, showing how these different practices were woven into a fabric of high culture, and integrated into institutions of print, education and research. He provides a substantially different view of Huxley's role in the evolution debates, and of his relations with this scientific contemporaries, especially Richard Owen and Charles Darwin.

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Science at Home
6
Imperial and Sentimental
9
A Womans Writing
11
Improvement by Domestication
19
Pressing Points of Economy
22
Fairylands of Science
28
Gentlemen of Science? Debates over Manners and Institutions
32
The Survey Man
35
One Culture or Two?
97
The Worship of Science
100
Holy Man
103
A Broad Church
111
The Classroom
121
Metaphysical Society behind Closed Doors
130
Darkest England Science and Labor in the 1880s and 1890s
135
A Copious Shuffler
138

The British Cuvier
38
The Genius
45
Instituting Biology
51
Why Darwins Bulldog?
58
RagandBone Men
62
Science as Culture
67
Science Writing and the Periodical Press
69
Literature and Liberal Education
75
Friends and Enemies of Culture
81
Scientific Imagination
94
Land Leadership and Learning
141
Arming for War
148
The Generals Scheme
155
A Fair and Adequate Trial
161
The Limits of Evolution
166
The End of the Man of Science
170
Bibliography
175
Index
199
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Paul White author of 18 books, lives in the UK.

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