Open fields : science in cultural encounter / Gillian Beer.
Open fields : science in cultural encounter / Gillian Beer.
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Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1996.
Date
1996.
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N820.9356/7
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English
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viii, 341 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Four Bodies on the Beagle: Touch, Sight, and Writing in a Darwin Letter -- 2. Can the Native Return? -- 3. Travelling the Other Way: Travel Narratives and Truth Claims -- 4. Speaking for the Others: Relativism and Authority in Victorian Anthropological Writing -- 5. Darwin and the Growth of Langu...
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Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1996.
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England
Date Published
1996.
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Science always raises more questions than it can contain. These challenging essays explore how ideas are transformed as they come under the stress of unforeseen readers. Using a wealth of material from diverse nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing, Gillian Beer tracks encounters between science, literature, and other forms of emotional experien...
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Open fields : science in cultural encounter / Gillian Beer.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N820.9356/7
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74VvZVxDAAa3
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0198183690 (acid-free paper)
9780198183693
0198183690
9780198183693 (acid-free paper)
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820.9356
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991004622229702626
