科学的自然主義の時代：ジョン・ティンダルと同時代人たちの書簡および雑誌掲載記事から The Age of Scientific Naturalism : Tyndall and His Contemporaries (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century)

Lightman, Bernard (EDT)/ Reidy, Michael S. (EDT)

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr（2014/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781848934634
• DDC分類 909

Full Description

The essays in this volume focus on the way Victorian Physicist John Tyndall and his correspondents developed their ideas through letters, periodicals and journals and challenge assumptions about who gained authority, and how they attained and defended their position within the scientific community.

Contents

IntroductionCommunication - Michael S Reidy Part I: John Tyndall 1 Saving the World in the Age of Entropy: John Tyndall and the Second Law of Thermodynamics - Elizabeth Neswald 2 Getting Past the Greenhouse: John Tyndall and the Nineteenth-Century History of Climate Change - Joshua P Howe 3 Tyndall, Lewes and Popular Representations of Scientific Authority in Victorian Britain - Jeremiah Rankin and Ruth Barton Part II: Scientific Naturalism 4 Herbert Spencer and the Metaphysical Roots of Evolutionary Naturalism - Michael W Taylor 5 Evolutionary Mathematics: William Kingdon Clifford's Use of Spencerian Evolutionism - Josipa Petrunic 6 The 'Great Plan of the Visible Universe': William Huggins, Evolutionary Naturalism and the Nature of the Nebulae - Robert W Smith 7 Alfred Newton: The Scientific Naturalist Who Wasn't - Jonathan Smith Part III: Communicating Science 8 Corresponding Naturalists - Janet Browne 9 Tyndall and Stokes: Correspondence, Referee Reports and the Physical Sciences in Victorian Britain - Melinda Baldwin 10 Science at the Metaphysical Society: Defining Knowledge in the 1870s - Bernard Lightman Index