The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science
The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science

Author: Roger Cooter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780521227438

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This study concentrates on the social and ideological functions of science during the consolidation of urban industrial society.

Materials of the Mind
Materials of the Mind

Author: James Poskett

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2022-02-19

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0226820645

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Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters stretching around the globe. Materials of the Mind tells the story of how phrenology changed the world--and how the world changed phrenology. This is a story of skulls from the Arctic, plaster casts from Haiti, books from Bengal, and letters from the Pacific. Drawing on far-flung museum and archival collections, and addressing sources in six different languages, Materials of the Mind is the first substantial account of science in the nineteenth century as part of global history. It shows how the circulation of material culture underpinned the emergence of a new materialist philosophy of the mind, while also demonstrating how a global approach to history could help us reassess issues such as race, technology, and politics today.

The Dome of Thought
The Dome of Thought

Author: William Hughes

Publisher:

Published: 2022-03

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781526143723

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The dome of thought is an accessible and lively history of the Victorian pseudoscience of phrenology. It makes extensive use of the popular accounts found in contemporary newspapers and journals, the majority of this material being reproduced for the first time since the nineteenth century.