Cosmology and the Scientific Self in the Nineteenth Century: Astronomic Emotions
Author:   Howard Carlton
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
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9783031052798


Pages:   315
Publication Date:   04 August 2022
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Author:   Howard Carlton
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.555kg
ISBN:  

9783031052798


ISBN 10:   303105279
Pages:   315
Publication Date:   04 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Part1. Introduction.- 1. Crisis and Cosmology.- Part II The Extraterrestrial Life Debate.-2 Planets and Pluralism.-3 “In Yonder Hundred Million Spheres”.- 4 “What Is Man if Thou Art Mindful of Him?”.- 5 Richard Proctor and Private Judgement.- Part III The Nebular Hypothesis.- 6 John Pringle Nichol, the Nebular Hypothesis and Progressive Cosmogony.-7 “And Eddied into Suns, that Wheeling Cast/The Planets”.- 8 “In Tracts of Fluent Heat Began”.- Part IV The Ages of the Earth and Sun.- 9 “And Murmurs from the Dying Sun”.- 10 The North Britons

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Howard Carlton received his PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK. His research explores a number of nineteenth-century astronomical controversies in order to demonstrate that the ideas of participants in these debates were materially altered by traumatic life-events, as evidenced by their subsequent productions and their performances of altered selves.

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