Catholics, science and civic culture in Victorian Belfast
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Catholics, science and civic culture in Victorian Belfast.
The connections between science and civic culture in the Victorian period have been extensively, and intensively, investigated over the past several decades. Limited attention, however, has been paid to Irish urban contexts. Roman Catholic attitudes towards science in the nineteenth century have also been neglected beyond a rather restricted set of thinkers and topics. This paper is offered as ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal for the History of Science
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0007-0874,1474-001X
DOI: 10.1017/s0007087414000594