'Sciences' were named and formed with great speed in the
nineteenth century. Yet what constitutes a 'true' science? The
Victorian era facilitated the rise of practices such as phrenology
and physiognomy, so-called sciences that lost their status and fell
out of use rather swiftly. This collection of essays seeks to
examine the marginalised sciences of the nineteenth century in an
attempt to define the shifting centres of scientific thinking,
specifically asking: how do some sciences emerge to occupy central
ground and how do others become consigned to the margins? The
essays in this collection explore the influence of
nineteenth-century culture on the rise of these sciences,
investigating the emergence of marginal sciences such as scriptural
geology and spiritualism. 'Repositioning Victorian Sciences' is a
valuable addition to our understanding of nineteenth-century
science in its original context, and will also be of great interest
to those studying the era as a whole.
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