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028			_a:Variety Books Publishers & Distributors _b:B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092 _c:IM2549 _d:19/08/2019
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100			_aDawson, Gowan
245			_aVictorian scientific naturalism _b: community, identity, continuity _c/ Gowan Dawson
260			_aLondon _b: The University of Chicago Press _c©2014
300			_aviii, 345 pages _b: illustrations _c; 24 cm
365			_b3466
505			_a Introduction / Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman -- Forging friendships -- "The Great O. versus the Jermyn St. Pet": Huxley, Falconer, and Owen on paleontological method / Gowan Dawson -- Evolutionary naturalism on high: the victorians sequester the Alps / Michael S. Reidy -- Paradox: the art of scientific naturalism / George Levine -- Institutional politics -- Huxley and the Devonshire Commission / Bernard Lightman -- Economies of scales: evolutionary naturalists and the victorian examination system / James Elwick -- Odd man out: was Joseph Hooker an evolutionary naturalist? / Jim Endersby -- Broader alliances -- Sunday lecture societies: naturalistic scientists, unitarians, and secularists unite against sabbatarian legislation / Ruth Barton -- The conduct of belief: agnosticism, the Metaphysical Society, and the formation of intellectual communities / Paul White -- Where naturalism and theism met: the uniformity of nature / Matthew Stanley -- New generations -- The fate of scientific naturalism: from public sphere to professional exclusivity / Theodore M. Porter -- The successors to the X Club? Late victorian naturalists and nature, 1869-1900 / Melinda Baldwin -- From agnosticism to rationalism: evolutionary biologists, the Rationalist Press Association, and early twentieth-century scientific naturalism /- Peter J. Bowler -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography of major works on scientific naturalism.
520			_aExamines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite
650			_a Science
650			_a Philosophy & theory
650			_aNaturalism -- History -- 19th century.
650			_aNaturalism -- Religious aspects.
650			_aScience -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
650			_aGreat Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
650			_aNaturalism.
650			_aScience -- Social aspects.
650			_aScience -- history.
650			_aIntellectual life.
700			_aDawson, Gowan
700			_aLightman, Bernard V.
942			_cBOOK