Science And Eccentricity Collecting Writing And Performing Science For Early Nineteenthcentury Audiences
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing; Pickering & Chatto
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781851969401
Description: "The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. This monograph is the first scholarly history of eccentricity. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order. She focuses on the self-taught natural philosopher William Martin, the fossilist Thomas Hawkins and the taxidermist Charles Winterton."--Jacket.