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593126
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GBB3A6790b422345
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The age of scientific naturalism : : Tyndall and his contemporaries /\ edited by Bernard Lightman and Michael S. Reidy
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| Series Statement
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Science and culture in the nineteenth century ;; number 24
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xv, 256 pages :: illustrations, portraits ;; 24 cm
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9781848934634
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: 1848934637
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-245) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction : John Tyndall, scientific naturalism and modes of communication / Michael S. Reidy -- Saving the world in the age of entropy : John Tyndall and the second law of thermodynamics / Elizabeth Neswald -- Getting past the greenhouse : John Tyndall and the nineteenth-century history of climate change / Joshua P. Howe -- Tyndall, Lewes and popular representations of scientific authority in Victorian Britain / Jeremiah Rankin and Ruth Barton -- Herbert Spencer and the metaphysical roots of evolutionary naturalism / Michael W. Taylor -- Evolutionary mathematics : William Kingdon Clifford's use of Spencerian evolutionism / Josipa Petrunic -- The 'great plan of the visible universe' : William Huggins, evolutionary naturalism and the nature of the nebulae / Robert W. Smith -- Alfred Newton : the scientific naturalist who wasn't / Jonathan Smith -- Corresponding naturalists / Janet Browne -- Tyndall and Stokes : correspondence, referee reports and the physical sciences in Victorian Britain / Melinda Baldwin -- Science at the Metaphysical Society : defining knowledge in the 1870s / Bernard Lightman
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Tyndall, John,1820-1893
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Tyndall, John,1820-1893-- Influence
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Science-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century
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Naturalism-- Religious aspects
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Science-- Philosophy-- History-- 19th century
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Religion and science-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century
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Scientific literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century
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Great Britain
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| Dewey Classification
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509.4109034
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Q127.G4A34 2014
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Lightman, Bernard V.,1950-
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Reidy, Michael S.
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