Richard Owen : Victorian naturalist / Nicolaas A. Rupke.
Richard Owen : Victorian naturalist / Nicolaas A. Rupke.
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New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1994.
Date
1994.
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T0391503
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Language
English
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xvii, 462 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Chronology of Richard Owen's Life and Times --Introduction: Personality Matters -- Ch. 1. Museum Politics (I) -- Ch. 2. Museum Politics (II) -- Ch. 3. Gothic Designs -- Ch. 4. The Vertebrate Blueprint --Ch. 5. Eclipsed by Darwin -- Ch. 6. Cerebral Constructs -- Ch. 7. Frames of Mind -- Ch. 8. The Sc...
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New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1994.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
1994.
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Summary
Using the museum movement as the primary context of explanation, Rupke throws new light on a wide area of Owen's activities. He reveals the central division in Owen's scientific oeuvre between the functionalism of Oxbridge natural theology and the transcendentalism of German nature philosophy. This epistemological duality confused and puzzled his c...
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Richard Owen : Victorian naturalist / Nicolaas A. Rupke.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-444) and index.
Transferred from N508.092/O97.14/1.
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T0391503
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74VKO6PDPGbg
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ISBN
0300058209
9780300058208
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508.092 B
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991022423449702626
