Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Science and Eccentricity : Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences - Victoria Carroll

Science and Eccentricity

Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences

By: Victoria Carroll

Paperback | 1 December 2020

At a Glance

Paperback


$148.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $37.19 with

 or 

Ships in 10 to 15 business days

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.
Industry Reviews
'"A lavishly illustrated, well-written book on a fascinating topic."-- "British Society for Literature and Science"
Carroll persuasively establishes the historical specificity of eccentricity to nineteenth-century scientific, literary, and popular culture, as well as the formative way eccentricity functioned in relation to scientific disciplines.-- "History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences"
Recommended.-- "Choice"
This highly creative and easily readable work offers us a new and insightful series of categories for historical analysis and research.-- "Isis"

More in History of Science

The Shortest History of Innovation - Andrew Leigh
Sapiens : A Graphic History: Volume 1 - Yuval Noah Harari

RRP $39.99

$31.75

21%
OFF
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 2 : The Pillars of Civilization - Yuval Noah Harari
A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 - Bill Bryson

RRP $36.99

$29.75

20%
OFF
Royal Observatory Greenwich : A History in Objects - Louise Devoy
Geology : An Illustrated History - David Bainbridge

RRP $49.99

$40.75

18%
OFF
Nightfaring : In Search of the Disappearing Darkness - Megan Eaves-Egenes
The Origin of Species : 150th Anniversary Edition - Charles Darwin
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 3 : The Masters of History - Yuval Noah Harari
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1 : Space, Time and Motion - Sean Carroll
Frankenstein : Collins Classics - Mary Shelley

RRP $9.99

$8.75

12%
OFF
Material World : A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future - Ed Conway
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2 : Quanta and Fields - Sean Carroll
The Physics Book : Big Ideas Simply Explained - DK

RRP $42.99

$32.75

24%
OFF
Indescribable : 100 Devotions For Kids About God And Science - Louie Giglio
Architecture : From Prehistory to Climate Emergency - Barnabas Calder