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Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780822948148
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2024
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Description:
The specialization thesis—the idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern disciplines—has played an integral role in the way historians have described the changing disciplinary map of nineteenth-century British science. This volume critically reevaluates this dominant narrative in the historiography. While new disciplines did emerge during the nineteenth century, the intellectual landscape was far muddier, and in many cases new forms of specialist knowledge continued to cross boundaries while integrating ideas from other areas of study.