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The age of scientific naturalism :

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The age of scientific naturalism :

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Tyndall and his contemporaries /

edited by Bernard Lightman and Michael S. Reidy

xv, 256 pages :

illustrations, portraits ;

24 cm

Science and culture in the nineteenth century ;

number 24

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-245) and index

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

Tyndall, John,1820-1893-- Influence

Naturalism-- Religious aspects

Religion and science-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century

Science-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century

Science-- Philosophy-- History-- 19th century

Scientific literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century

Great Britain

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Lightman, Bernard V.,1950-

Reidy, Michael S.

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