Gowan Dawson: 2 books
Show Me the Bone
Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty—“Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!” Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded...
by Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the spectrum...