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This book argues that while the historiography of the development
of scientific ideas has for some time acknowledged the important
influences of socio-cultural and material contexts, the significant
impact of traumatic events, life threatening illnesses and other
psychotropic stimuli on the development of scientific thought may
not have been fully recognised. Howard Carlton examines the
available primary sources which provide insight into the lives of a
number of nineteenth-century astronomers, theologians and
physicists to study the complex interactions within their
'biocultural' brain-body systems which drove parallel changes of
perspective in theology, metaphysics, and cosmology. In doing so,
he also explores three topics of great scientific interest during
this period: the question of the possible existence of life on
other planets; the deployment of the nebular hypothesis as a theory
of cosmogony; and the religiously charged debates about the ages of
the earth and sun. From this body of evidence we gain a greater
understanding of the underlying phenomena which actuated
intellectual developments in the past and which are still relevant
to today's knowledge-making processes.
This book argues that while the historiography of the
development of scientific ideas has for some time acknowledged the
important influences of socio-cultural and material contexts, the
significant impact of traumatic events, life threatening illnesses
and other psychotropic stimuli on the development of scientific
thought may not have been fully recognised. Howard Carlton examines
the available primary sources which provide insight into the lives
of a number of nineteenth-century astronomers, theologians and
physicists to study the complex interactions within their
‘biocultural’ brain-body systems which drove parallel changes
of perspective in theology, metaphysics, and cosmology. In doing
so, he also explores three topics of great scientific interest
during this period: the question of the possible existence of life
on other planets;Â the deployment of the nebular hypothesis as
a theory of cosmogony;Â and the religiously charged debates
about the ages of the earth and sun. From this body of evidence we
gain a greater understanding of the underlying phenomena which
actuated intellectual developments in the past and which are still
relevant to today’s knowledge-making processes.
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