Vienna in the age of uncertainty science, liberalism, and private life /

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Hovedforfatter: Coen, Deborah R.
Institution som forfatter: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Introduction : a scientific dynasty
  • The mind set free : preparing a liberal society in the 1840s
  • In the stream of the world : coming of age in the 1860s
  • Memory images : models of reason in the liberal age
  • The pigtail of the nineteenth century : determinism in the 1880s
  • Afterlife : inheritance at the fin de siècle
  • The education of the normal eye : visual learning circa 1900
  • Citizens of the most probable state : the politics of learning, 1908
  • Into the open : measuring uncertainty, 1900-1918
  • The irreplaceable eye : visual statistics, 1914-1926
  • Conclusion : a family's legacy
  • Appendix : the Exner-Frisch family tree
  • Bibliography
  • Index.