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Cosmology and the Scientific Self in the Nineteenth Century = Astronomic Emotions /

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Title/Author:	Cosmology and the Scientific Self in the Nineteenth Century/ by Howard Carlton.
Reminder of title:	Astronomic Emotions /
Author:	Carlton, Howard.
Description:	XII, 315 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Church history. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05280-4
ISBN:	9783031052804

Cosmology and the Scientific Self in the Nineteenth Century = Astronomic Emotions /
Carlton, Howard.

Cosmology and the Scientific Self in the Nineteenth CenturyAstronomic Emotions /[electronic resource] :by Howard Carlton. - 1st ed. 2022. - XII, 315 p.online resource.

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.

This book argues that while the historiography of the development of scientific ideas has for some time acknowledged the important influences of socio-cultural and material contexts, the significant impact of traumatic events, life threatening illnesses and other psychotropic stimuli on the development of scientific thought may not have been fully recognised. Howard Carlton examines the available primary sources which provide insight into the lives of a number of nineteenth-century astronomers, theologians and physicists to study the complex interactions within their ‘biocultural’ brain-body systems which drove parallel changes of perspective in theology, metaphysics, and cosmology. In doing so, he also explores three topics of great scientific interest during this period: the question of the possible existence of life on other planets; the deployment of the nebular hypothesis as a theory of cosmogony; and the religiously charged debates about the ages of the earth and sun. From this body of evidence we gain a greater understanding of the underlying phenomena which actuated intellectual developments in the past and which are still relevant to today’s knowledge-making processes. 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.

ISBN: 9783031052804

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-05280-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

569616
Church history.

LC Class. No.: BR140-1510

Dewey Class. No.: 270

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