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  • Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 2

    This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters. ... Leer más

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  • Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 1

    This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters. ... Leer más

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  • Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 4

    This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters. ... Leer más

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  • Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 3

    This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters. ... Leer más

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  • Making a Grade

    Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing

    de James Elwick ...
    Starting in the 1850s achievement tests became standardized in the British Isles, and were administered on an industrial scale. By the end of the century more than two million people had written mass exams, particularly in science, technology, and mathematics. Some candidates responded to this standardization by cramming or cheating; others embraced the hope that such tests rewarded not only ... Leer más

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  • Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences

    Shared Assumptions, 1820–1858

    de James Elwick ...
    Series Libro 87 - Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
    Elwick explores how the concept of "compound individuality" brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. Scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units. Discussion of a "bodily economy" was widespread. But by 1860, the ... Leer más

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  • Science & Education

    Enriched edition. Fostering Rational Thought Through Science Education in the Victorian Era

    In "Science & Education," Thomas Henry Huxley meticulously explores the intricate relationships between science, education, and society during the late 19th century. Employing a compelling blend of rhetoric and empirical evidence, Huxley advocates for the integration of scientific principles into the educational curriculum, arguing that such knowledge is paramount for the intellectual and moral ... Leer más

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  • The Matter of Air

    Science and Art of the Ethereal

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  • Darwin's Plots

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  • Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure and Other Essays

    We find ourselves to-day in the midst of a somewhat peculiar state of society, which we call Civilisation, but which even to the most optimistic among us does not seem altogether desirable. Some of us, indeed, are inclined to think that it is a kind of disease which the various races of man have to pass through—as children pass through measles or whooping cough; but if it is a disease, there is ... Leer más

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