Thomas Huxley: Making the 'Man of Science'Dubbed 'Darwin's Bulldog' for his combative role in the Victorian controversies over evolutionary theory, Thomas Huxley has been widely regarded as the epitome of the professional scientist who emerged in the nineteenth century from the restrictions of ecclesiastical authority and aristocratic patronage. Yet from the 1850s until his death in 1895, Huxley always defined himself as a 'man of science', a moral and religious figure, not a scientist. Exploring his relationships with his wife, fellow naturalists, clergymen and men of letters, White presents a new analysis of the authority of science, literature, and religion during the Victorian period, showing how these different practices were woven into a fabric of high culture, and integrated into institutions of print, education and research. He provides a substantially different view of Huxley's role in the evolution debates, and of his relations with this scientific contemporaries, especially Richard Owen and Charles Darwin. |
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Making the 'Man of Science' Paul White. Thomas Huxley Dubbed " Darwin's Bulldog " for his combative role in the Victorian con- troversies over evolutionary theory , Thomas Huxley has been widely regarded as the epitome of the ...
Making the 'Man of Science' Paul White. Thomas Huxley Dubbed " Darwin's Bulldog " for his combative role in the Victorian con- troversies over evolutionary theory , Thomas Huxley has been widely regarded as the epitome of the ...
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... Huxley became a notorious figure in the debates over evolutionary theory that arose after the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species . In the course of his teaching at the School of Mines in London and his ardent ...
... Huxley became a notorious figure in the debates over evolutionary theory that arose after the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species . In the course of his teaching at the School of Mines in London and his ardent ...
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... Huxley's wide - ranging career most often through the category of professionalization . Their accounts have situated Huxley among the leaders of a rising scientific commu- nity struggling against an older , priestly caste for cultural ...
... Huxley's wide - ranging career most often through the category of professionalization . Their accounts have situated Huxley among the leaders of a rising scientific commu- nity struggling against an older , priestly caste for cultural ...
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... Huxley frequently features in these interpretations as the epitome of the rising , professional scientist . Yet , according to his own account , he was neither a scientist nor a professional in the modern sense ; nor was the salaried ...
... Huxley frequently features in these interpretations as the epitome of the rising , professional scientist . Yet , according to his own account , he was neither a scientist nor a professional in the modern sense ; nor was the salaried ...
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Contents
Science at Home | 6 |
Imperial and Sentimental | 9 |
A Womans Writing | 11 |
Improvement by Domestication | 19 |
Pressing Points of Economy | 22 |
Fairylands of Science | 28 |
Gentlemen of Science? Debates over Manners and Institutions | 32 |
The Survey Man | 35 |
One Culture or Two? | 97 |
The Worship of Science | 100 |
Holy Man | 103 |
A Broad Church | 111 |
The Classroom | 121 |
Metaphysical Society behind Closed Doors | 130 |
Darkest England Science and Labor in the 1880s and 1890s | 135 |
A Copious Shuffler | 138 |
The British Cuvier | 38 |
The Genius | 45 |
Instituting Biology | 51 |
Why Darwins Bulldog? | 58 |
RagandBone Men | 62 |
Science as Culture | 67 |
Science Writing and the Periodical Press | 69 |
Literature and Liberal Education | 75 |
Friends and Enemies of Culture | 81 |
Scientific Imagination | 94 |
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