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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1524
Release: 1919
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Catalogue

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Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 998
Release: 1903
Genre: Antiquarian booksellers
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Science and Eccentricity

Science and Eccentricity
Author: Victoria Carroll
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2016-09-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0822981815

The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. This monograph is the first scholarly history of eccentricity. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order. She focuses on the self-taught natural philosopher William Martin, the fossilist Thomas Hawkins and the taxidermist Charles Waterton.