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SUMMARY:'A hunger for truth’: desire and temptation in late Victorian sci
 ence
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DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Léjon Saarloos (Leiden University) wil
 l argue that the categories of ‘desire’ and ‘temptation’ were important 
 to the ways Victorian men of science perceived\, disputed\, and performe
 d their scientific identities. Notions like desire and temptation recur 
 over and over again in different types of sources and were uttered by ac
 tors from wildly varying backgrounds themselves. Chemists\, like Edward 
 Frankland for example\, warned others not to desire money over knowledge
 \, while historians like Charles Oman argued that a desire for historica
 l completeness had detrimental effects on standards of education and sch
 olarly productivity. Through a few examples\, he will elaborate on the r
 ole desire and temptation played in the attempts of Victorian men of sci
 ence to redefine their identities in a period of discipline formation an
 d how they\, in turn\, sought to discipline themselves to live a scienti
 fic life.\n\nSponsored by the Research Group on University History and t
 he History of Humanities Network
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Hanson Room\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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