Fact and Feeling

Fact and Feeling PDF Author: Jonathan Smith
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299143541
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Book Description
Considering science as a form of cultural discourse like literature, music, and religion, explores the contacts and affinities between scientists and humanists in 19th-century Britain. The topics include Baconian induction, romantic methodologies of poetry and science, the uniformitarian imagination and The Voyage of the Beagle, John Ruskin, Edwin Abbot, and the quintessential Victorian merging of science and literature, Sherlock Holmes. Paper edition (unseen), $22.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR