@article{1448562,
      author = {Carlton, Howard.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1448562},
      title = {Cosmology and the scientific self in the nineteenth  century: astronomic emotions /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      abstract = {This book argues that while the historiography of the  development of scientific ideas has for some time  acknowledged the important influences of socio-cultural and  material contexts, the significant impact of traumatic  events, life threatening illnesses and other psychotropic  stimuli on the development of scientific thought may not  have been fully recognised. Howard Carlton examines the  available primary sources which provide insight into the  lives of a number of nineteenth-century astronomers,  theologians and physicists to study the complex  interactions within their biocultural brain-body systems  which drove parallel changes of perspective in theology,  metaphysics, and cosmology. In doing so, he also explores  three topics of great scientific interest during this  period: the question of the possible existence of life on  other planets; the deployment of the nebular hypothesis as  a theory of cosmogony; and the religiously charged debates  about the ages of the earth and sun. From this body of  evidence we gain a greater understanding of the underlying  phenomena which actuated intellectual developments in the  past and which are still relevant to todays  knowledge-making processes. Howard Carlton received his PhD  from the University of Birmingham, UK. His research  explores a number of nineteenth-century astronomical  controversies in order to demonstrate that the ideas of  participants in these debates were materially altered by  traumatic life-events, as evidenced by their subsequent  productions and their performances of altered selves.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05280-4},
      recid = {1448562},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      address = {Cham, Switzerland :},
      year = {2022},
}