Science and Eccentricity: Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences - Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
Victoria Carroll (author)
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272 Pages /
Published: 09/03/2021
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The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. This monograph is the first scholarly history of eccentricity. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order. She focuses on the self-taught natural philosopher William Martin, the fossilist Thomas Hawkins and the taxidermist Charles Waterton.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 9780822966333
Number of pages: 272
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