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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2009
      August 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511521515
      9780521431828
      9780521541169
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521515
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 298 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 300 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Ideas in Context (27)
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    Subjects:
    History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (27)
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    This 1993 book deals with debates about science - its history, philosophy and moral value - in the first half of the nineteenth century, a period in which the 'modern' features of science developed. Defining Science also examines the different forms or genres in which science was discussed in the public sphere - most crucially in the Victorian review journals, but also in biographical, historical and educational works. William Whewell wrote major works on the history and philosophy of science before these became technical subjects. Consequently he had to define his own role as a metascientific critic (in a manner akin to cultural critics like Coleridge and Carlyle) as well as seeking to define science for both expert and lay audiences.

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    ‘… a thoughtful discussion of the emergence of science as a major factor in the definition of Victorian civilisation.’

    Source: Metascience

    ‘… at once a seminal vocational biography of the most prominent Victorian metascientist, and a penetrating study of the complex debate about the nature of science in nineteenth century Britain. It is a book no student of Victorian intellectual history can afford to ignore.’

    Source: Isis

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