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Victorian science & imagery representation and knowledge in nineteenth-century visual culture edited by Nancy Rose Marshall

ch. 1 Measuring Native America: Early American Archaeology and the Politics of Time / Rachael Z. DeLue -- ch. 2 "All That Is Solid Melts into Air": Burne-Jones, Glaciation, and the Matter of History / ...
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Dusting Off Victorian Science Specimens, from Two-Faced Kittens to Slug Models

After 25 years of collecting contemporary art, George Loudon’s eye was caught by a display of 19th-century glass flowers at Harvard University. From those models by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, he ...
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Strange science : investigating the limits of knowledge in the Victorian Age / Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett, editors

Foreword / Dame Gillian Beer -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett -- Part I. Strange plants : new frontiers in the natural world. 1. Victorian orchids and the forms ...