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Year 149 – 2009: Species, Serpents, Spirits and Skulls: Science at the Margins in the Victorian Age by Sherrie Lynne Lyons
Published: Albany, 2009 Victorians filled auditoriums to hear presentations by the leading scientific lights of their day. Michael Faraday’s lectures on electricity and magnetism, for example, were wildly popular and people jammed every hall in which he appeared. But for … Continue reading
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