Science and Eccentricity : Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN-10
0822966336
ISBN-13
9780822966333
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
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University of Pittsburgh Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 1st, 2020
Print length
276 Pages
Product Classification:
Philosophy of science
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The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order.
The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. This monograph is the first scholarly history of eccentricity. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order. She focuses on the self-taught natural philosopher William Martin, the fossilist Thomas Hawkins and the taxidermist Charles Waterton.
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