Through a reassessment of phrenology, Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism sheds light on all kinds of works in Victorian Britain and A

Victorian Scientific Naturalism examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural autho

The dome of thought is the first study of phrenology based primarily on the popular – rather than medical – appreciation of this important and controversial

Explores how the concept of 'compound individuality' brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. This book states that scientists conducti

These essays address broad topics such as the popularization of scientific ideas, secularization and the development of the naturalistic worldview.