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Deborah R. Coen

Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty

Science, Liberalism, and Private Life

352 pages, 22 halftones  6 x 9  © 2007

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ISBN: 9780226111728   Published August 2007

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List of Illustrations
Introduction: A Scientific Dynasty

1          The Mind Set Free: Preparing a Liberal Society in the 1840s
2          In the Stream of the World: Coming of Age in the 1860s
3          Memory Images: Models of Reason in the Liberal Age
4          The Pigtail of the Nineteenth Century: Determinism in the 1880s
5          Afterlife: Inheritance at the Fin de Siècle
6          The Education of the Normal Eye: Visual Learning circa 1900
7          Citizens of the Most Probable State: The Politics of Learning, 1908
8          Into the Open: Measuring Uncertainty, 1900–1914
9          The Irreplaceable Eye: Visual Statistics, 1914–1926
 
Conclusion: A Family’s Legacy
Appendix: The Exner-Frisch Family Tree
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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