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Species, serpents, spirits, and skulls : science at the margins of the Victorian age
- Title
- Species, serpents, spirits, and skulls : science at the margins of the Victorian age / Sherrie Lynne Lyons.
- Author
- Lyons, Sherrie Lynne, 1947-
- Publication
- Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 245 p. : ill.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : an age of transition -- Swimming at the edges of scientific respectability : sea serpents, Charles Lyell, and the professionalization of geology -- Franz Gall, Johann Spurzheim, George Combe, and phrenology : a science for everyone -- The crisis in faith : William Crookes and spiritualism -- Morals and materialism : Alfred Russel Wallace, spiritualism, and the problem of evolution -- Thatige skepsis : Thomas Huxley and evolutionary theory -- Negotiating the boundaries of science : an ongoing process.
- Call Number
- JSE 12-464
- ISBN
- 9781438427973 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1438427972 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781438427980 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2008054150
- OCLC
- 291908016
- 2008054150
- Author
- Lyons, Sherrie Lynne, 1947-
- Title
- Species, serpents, spirits, and skulls : science at the margins of the Victorian age / Sherrie Lynne Lyons.
- Imprint
- Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 12-464