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Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume I: Human Nature

Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume I: Human Nature

Hardcover

Series: Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents

General World HistoryBritish History

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 3, 2026

ISBN10: 1041350937
ISBN13: 9781041350934
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 3 2026
Pages: 568
Language: English
This volume features some of the most controversial and topical science writing of the period. Investigations of the human body led to vexed debates about the nature and origins of life - materialism vs. spiritualism. Anatomical studies demonstrated humans' likeness to other mammals; these, combined with studies of fossil bones of extinct creatures, led to theories of evolution that laid the groundwork for Charles Darwin; they also led to arguments about the origins and development of racial difference, some of which proved historically dangerous in that they lent authority to racist assumptions about the supposed inferiority of people of colour.

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