Bernard Lightman is Professor of Humanities at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, former Editor of the journal Isis, and Vice-President and President Elect of the History of Science Society. Professor Lightman has published over 50 articles and is author of The Origins of Agnosticism (1987) and Victorian Popularizers of Science (2007). He is also editor or co-editor of several collections, Victorian Science in Context (1997), Science in the Marketplace (2007), and Victorian Scientific Naturalism (2014). In addition, he is the series editor of „Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century.“
38 Ebooks von Bernard Lightman
Bernard Lightman: A Companion to the History of Science
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates and issues that domin …
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Bernard Lightman: A Companion to the History of Science
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates and issues that domin …
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€48.99
Bernard Lightman & Bennett Zon: Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines
Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today se …
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€51.24
Bernard Lightman & Bennett Zon: Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines
Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today se …
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€51.58
Michael S Reidy: Age of Scientific Naturalism
Physicist John Tyndall and his contemporaries were at the forefront of developing the cosmology of scientific naturalism during the Victorian period. They rejected all but physical laws as having any …
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€38.68
Bernard Lightman & Michael S. Reidy: The Age of Scientific Naturalism
Physicist John Tyndall and his contemporaries were at the forefront of developing the cosmology of scientific naturalism during the Victorian period. They rejected all but physical laws as having any …
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€49.99
Carin Berkowitz & Bernard Lightman: Science Museums in Transition
The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to …
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€54.99
Ronald A. Binzley & Jeff Hardin: Warfare between Science & Religion
A "very welcome volume" of essays questioning the presumption of irreconcilable conflict between science and religion (British Journal for the History of Science).The "conflict thesis& …
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€19.21
Bernard Lightman: Origins of Agnosticism
Originally published in 1987. The Origins of Agnosticism provides a reinterpretation of agnosticism and its relationship to science. Professor Lightman examines the epistemological basis of agnostics …
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€50.31
Bernard Lightman: Rethinking History, Science, and Religion
The historical interface between science and religion was depicted as an unbridgeable conflict in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Starting in the 1970s, such a conception was too simplist …
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€49.99
Gowan Dawson & Bernard Lightman: Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to …
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€75.21
Fern Elsdon-Baker & Bernard Lightman: Identity in a Secular Age
Although historians have suggested for some time that we move away from the assumption of a necessary clash between science and religion, the conflict narrative persists in contemporary discourse. Bu …
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Richard England & Bernard Lightman: Metaphysical Society (1869-1880)
The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to ‚collect, arrange, and diffuse K …
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€104.83
Richard England & Bernard Lightman: Metaphysical Society (1869-1880)
The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to ‚collect, arrange, and diffuse K …
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€91.36
Bernard Lightman: Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain
Scholars have tended to portray T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution, …
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€58.69
Bernard Lightman: Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain
Scholars have tended to portray T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution, …
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€58.94
Bernard Lightman & Sarah Qidwai: Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions
Before the advent of radio, conceptions of the relationship between science and religion circulated through periodicals, journals, and books, influencing the worldviews of intellectuals and a wider p …
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€59.99
Bernard Lightman & Efram Sera-Shriar: Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences
The specialization thesis—the idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern disciplines—has played an integral role i …
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€59.99
David Amigoni & Suzy Anger: Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 1
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – w …
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€56.61
David Amigoni & Suzy Anger: Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 1
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – w …
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€56.31
David Amigoni & Suzy Anger: Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 4
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – w …
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€192.63
Claire Brock & Gowan Dawson: Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – w …
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€64.19
David Amigoni & Suzy Anger: Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 2
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – w …
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€199.05
Claire Brock & Gowan Dawson: Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 7
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – w …
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€192.24
Claire Brock & Gowan Dawson: Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – w …
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€64.44
David Amigoni & Suzy Anger: Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 2
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – w …
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€200.25
Claire Brock & Gowan Dawson: Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 7
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – w …
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€192.95
David Amigoni & Suzy Anger: Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 4
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – w …
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€192.56
Claire Brock & Gowan Dawson: Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 8
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – w …
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€56.74
Claire Brock & Gowan Dawson: Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 5
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – w …
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€56.55
Claire Brock & Gowan Dawson: Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 8
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – w …
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€56.32
Claire Brock & Gowan Dawson: Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 5
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – w …
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€56.19
Gowan Dawson & Bernard Lightman: Victorian Scientific Naturalism
Victorian Scientific Naturalism examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishmen …
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€66.76
Aileen Fyfe & Bernard Lightman: Science in the Marketplace
The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time wh …
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€79.69
Bernard Lightman: Victorian Science in Context
Victorians were fascinated by the flood of strange new worlds that science was opening to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all corners of the Empire, while revolutionary theori …
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€71.74
Bernard Lightman: Victorian Popularizers of Science
The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time The Origin of Species was published in 1859, the British public looked …
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€63.19
David Amigoni & Suzy Anger: Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 3
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – w …
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€56.61
David Amigoni & Suzy Anger: Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 3
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – w …
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€56.74
