“It is too easy to think that ‘science’ is what happens now, that modernity and scientific thought are inseparable. Yet as Laura Snyder so brilliantly shows in this riveting picture of the first heroic age, the nineteenth century saw the… — Judith Flanders Copy Share Image
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“It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of the nineteenth… — Judith Flanders Copy Share Image
“It is too easy to think that ‘science’ is what happens now, that modernity and scientific thought are inseparable. Yet as Laura Snyder so… — Judith Flanders Copy Share Image