Bernard Lightman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1077140 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bernard Lightman |
| PRENOMES | Bernard |
| SOBRENOME | Lightman |
| ASSINATURA | LIGHTMAN B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | York University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 9 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Minakata Kumagusu in London
The Japanese biologist and ethnologist Minakata Kumagusu has achieved a degree of celebrity in Japan for being the first Asian contributor to the British scientific magazine Nature . However, although Minakata's many contributions to Nature from 1893 to 1914 provided British readers with rare insight into Asian scientific achievements, he is seldom discussed in history of science scholarship produced by American, British and European researchers.…
Nineteenth-century Japanese and British science in context
This special issue focuses on the complex cultural connections between Japanese and British science in the nineteenth century. This was a period when intellectuals around the globe began to interact more intensively due to increased opportunities to travel and the growth in translations of important scientific works into many languages. This was also an era when, in the latter part of the century, Japanese intellectuals were searching for ways to…
One Hundred Years of Internationalizing the History of Science
This essay examines how internationalization has been a part of the history of the History of Science Society (HSS) from its establishment in 1924 to the present. Although the HSS remains a US-based society and its annual meetings are held primarily in the US, attended by mostly US-based scholars, we argue that there has always been a strong commitment to internationalism that continues to this day. We walk through the hundred years of the Societ…
Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions
Religious Vitality in Victorian London , by W.M. Jacob
Identity in a Secular Age
Identity in a Secular Age
Book Forum
The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880)
The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles, editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century , as a private dining and debate club that gathered together a latter-day clerisy. Building on the tradition of the Cambridge Apostles, the founding members elected talented men from across the Victorian intellectual spectrum: bishops, one Cardinal, philosophers, scientists, literary figures, and p…
Metaphysical Society
Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines
Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today seldom have those studies engaged with the Victorian origins of modern disciplinarity. Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines adds a crucial missing link in that history by asking and answering a series of deceptively simple questions: how did …
The Mid-Victorian period and the Astronomical Register (1863-1886)
Science Museums in Transition
A Companion to the History of Science
Companion to the History of Science
Popularizers, participation and the transformations of nineteenth-century publishing
Focusing on the editors, journalists and authors who worked on the new ‘popular science’ periodicals and books from the 1860s to the 1880s, this piece will discuss how they conceived of their readers as co-participants in the creation of knowledge. The transformation of nineteenth-century publishing opened up opportunities for making science more accessible to a new polity of middle and working class readers. Editors, journalists and authors resp…
The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, 1869–1880: A Critical Edition, Vol. 3
International audience
The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, 1869–1880: A Critical Edition, Vol. 1
International audience
The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, 1869–1880: A Critical Edition, Vol. 2
International audience
The “History” of Victorian Scientific Naturalism
Scientific naturalists and their language games
For nineteenth century British scientific naturalists like Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, and John Tyndall, translation, and the issues of language that it raised, were crucial. Dealing with these issues became a major part of their strategy to reform British science, and it involved opening up the scientific community to French and German research. Early in their careers, both Huxley and Tyndall invested time translating science books from…
Farewell from the York Isis Office
The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China
In The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China, twelve scholars examine how knowledge, things and people moved within, and between, the East and the West from the early modern period to the twentieth century.
Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China
Victorian science and popular visual culture
In this issue, we explore the intersection between Victorian science and popular visual culture. The Victorian period is especially important for understanding how they became intimately intertwine
The Visual Theology of Victorian Popularizers of Science
This essay examines the use of visual images during the latter half of the nineteenth century in the work of three important popularizers of science. J. G. Wood, Richard Proctor, and Agnes Clerke skillfully used illustrations and photographs to establish their credibility as trustworthy guides to scientific, moral, and religious truths. All three worked within the natural theology tradition, despite the powerful critique of William Paley's argume…
Huxley and scientific agnosticism
Huxley's invention of the term ‘agnostic’ in 1869 is often seen as a brilliant rhetorical strategy. Portrayed as an effective weapon in Huxley's public debates with defenders of the Anglican establishment, the creation of scientific agnosticism has been interpreted as a turning point in the relationship between science and religion. In this paper I will challenge this interpretation of the rise of scientific agnosticism. Huxley was reluctant to i…
Victorian Sciences and Religions
Victorian science and popular visual culture
In this issue, we explore the intersection between Victorian science and popular visual culture. The Victorian period is especially important for understanding how they became intimately intertwine
The “History” of Victorian Scientific Naturalism
Henry Longueville Mansel and the origins of agnosticism
Leon Blum
Modern European intellectual history
The dialectic of biblical critique
Evolution and Ethics
Thomas Henry Huxley
On truth and interpretation
Science and the postmodern crisis
(1996). Science and the postmodern crisis. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Science and Religion in Modern Western Thought, pp. 1764-1776
Victorian Science in Context
Victorians were fascinated by the flood of strange new worlds that science was opening to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all corners of the empire, while revolutionary theories such as the idea that humans might be descended from apes drew crowds to heated debates. Victorian Science in Context captures the essence of this fascination, charting the many ways in which science influenced and was influenced by the larger Vict…
Huxley
The Visual Theology of Victorian Popularizers of Science
This essay examines the use of visual images during the latter half of the nineteenth century in the work of three important popularizers of science. J. G. Wood, Richard Proctor, and Agnes Clerke skillfully used illustrations and photographs to establish their credibility as trustworthy guides to scientific, moral, and religious truths. All three worked within the natural theology tradition, despite the powerful critique of William Paley's argume…
The "Creed of Science" in Victorian England . Roy M. MacLeod
Victorian Sciences and Religions
Huxley and scientific agnosticism
Huxley's invention of the term ‘agnostic’ in 1869 is often seen as a brilliant rhetorical strategy. Portrayed as an effective weapon in Huxley's public debates with defenders of the Anglican establishment, the creation of scientific agnosticism has been interpreted as a turning point in the relationship between science and religion. In this paper I will challenge this interpretation of the rise of scientific agnosticism. Huxley was reluctant to i…
Pope Huxley and the Church Agnostic
En 1858, Henry Longueville Mansel donna une série de conférences, dans le cadre des "Bampton Lectures' ', qui suscitèrent de vives réactions. Il y défendait, entre autres, l'infaillibilité de la Bible à partir de prémisses selon lesquelles l'homme étant un être limité alors que Dieu et le monde transcendantal se situent au-delà de ces limites, l'homme ne peut, par conséquent, critiquer la Bible qui est une communication de Dieu, un Etre qui est i…
Victorian Popularizers of Science
Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe
Reviewed by: Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe: Astronomy, Cosmology, and Gender in the Post Darwinian World Bernard Lightman (bio) Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe: Astronomy, Cosmology, and Gender in the Post Darwinian World, by Pamela Gossin; pp. xvii + 300. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2007, £50.00, $99.95. Pamela Gossin's study of Thomas Hardy and astronomy is a pleasure to read and a welcome addition to the scholarship on Victorian science a…
Darwin and the popularization of evolution
Evolution was popularized from 1860 to 1900 in the USA and Britain in a wide variety of media. Here I investigate traditional texts associated with the intellectual elite, including philosophical or scientific monographs, sermons, and published lectures. Evolution was rarely popularized in ways that reflected Darwin's major contribution to biology, his theory of natural selection. This meant that the reading audience more often encountered an alt…
The many lives of Charles Darwin
This article focuses on the early book-length biographies of Darwin published from his death in 1882 up to 1900. By making 1900 the cutoff point I can examine the biographies produced when the iconic figure was not yet set in stone, and before the rediscovery of Mendel's work in the early twentieth century and the anniversary celebrations of 1909 changed the way in which Darwin was regarded. Darwin's biographers dealt with three major themes. Fir…
Victorian science and popular visual culture
In this issue, we explore the intersection between Victorian science and popular visual culture. The Victorian period is especially important for understanding how they became intimately intertwine
Eloges
The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China
In The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China, twelve scholars examine how knowledge, things and people moved within, and between, the East and the West from the early modern period to the twentieth century.
Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China
Farewell from the York Isis Office
The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, 1869–1880: A Critical Edition, Vol. 3
International audience
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