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SUMMARY:Citizen Cuvier: radical appropriations of Georges Cuvier's law of 
 correlation in Edinburgh and London\, 1801–1837 - Gowan Dawson (Universi
 ty of Leicester)
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CONTACT:Natalie Lawrence
DESCRIPTION:The paper will consider how\, notwithstanding historians' usua
 l assumptions about the intrinsic conservatism of Cuvier's scientific outl
 ook\, his famous law of the correlation of parts was advocated by Whig rep
 ublicans\, materialist surgeons\, and atheistic plebeian radicals in early
  19th-century Britain\, who all saw it as supporting aspects of their own 
 political agendas.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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