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Language: en
Pages: 275
Authors: Arthur Wrobel
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-21 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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Progressive nineteenth-century Americans believed firmly that human perfection could be achieved with the aid of modern science. To many, the science of that tu
Pseudo-science and Society in Nineteenth-century America
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Arthur Wrobel
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The 19th century was the golden age of many things, and pseudo-science was one of them. Nowhere was this more obviously the case than in America. If he shopped
Hawthorne's Mad Scientists
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Pages: 328
Authors: Taylor Stoehr
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Science and Scientism in Nineteenth-century Europe
Language: en
Pages: 370
Authors: Richard Olson
Categories: Europe
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The 19th century produced scientific and cultural revolutions that forever transformed modern European life. Richard Olson provides an integrated account of the
On the Fringe
Language: en
Pages: 137
Authors: Michael D. Gordin
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"Pseudoscience is not a real thing. The term is a negative category, always ascribed to somebody else's beliefs, not to characterize a doctrine one holds dear o