Science and Eccentricity : Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences

Name: Science and Eccentricity
Brand: University of Pittsburgh Press
SKU: 9780822966333
Price: 8100 KES
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ISBN: 9780822966333

by Victoria Carroll

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-10 0822966336

ISBN-13 9780822966333

Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press

Imprint 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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