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19thcsciculture
Science and Culture in the 19th Century
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Philosopher who first developed utilitarianism. | Bentham |
| English commissioner who established the link between disease and poor sanitary conditions, causing England to pass its first public health law. | Chadwick |
| The belief that people contract disease by breathing in foul odors | Miasmatic Theory |
| Theory that specific diseases were caused by specific living organisms. | Germ Theory |
| Frenchman who developed the germ theory of disease | Pasteur |
| The process of heating a beverage to kill to purify it from bacteria | Pasteurization |
| The brainchild of English surgeon Joseph Lister, an innovation which greatly reduced wound infections | Antiseptic Principle |
| The city planner who under Napoleon III bulldozed and rebuilt much of Paris | Haussmann |
| Revolutionary psychiatrist and developer of psychoanalysis | Freud |
| Husband and wife who wrote "The Subjection of Women" | Mill (Stuart and Harriet) |
| English founder of neoclassical economics and writer of "Principles of Economics" | Marshall |
| Russian chemist and creator of the periodic table. | Mendeleev |
| English physicist whose discoveries were fundamental to electrodynamics and led to the creation of the first dynamo. | Faraday |
| The first sociologist who proposed that all intellectual activity passes from a Theological to Scientific condition. | Comte |
| The scientific method, as defined by Comte. | Positvism |
| Pioneering geologist whose theories of uniformitarianism disproved the idea that the Earth's surface had been formed by short-lived cataclysms. | Lyell |
| French biologist who proposed a system similar to evolution. | Lamarck |
| The dude who actually proposed the theory of evolution. | Darwin |
| The work that first advanced Darwin's ideas. | On the Origin of Species |
| Englishman who coined the term "survival of the fittest" to describe humanity's continuing evolution in response to the economic struggle | Herbert Spencer |
| The name given to Spencer's application of Darwinian thought to sociology | Social Darwinism |
| The belief that art should depict life "exactly as it is" | Realism |
| French realist author of J'Accuse | Zola |
| Zola's novel detailing a coal strike | Germinal |
| Balzac's magnum opus which characterized French society as amoral and brutal | The Human Comedy |
| Flaubert's novel detailing the life of a bored housewife who pursues an adulterous affair and is eventually betrayed by her lover. | Madame Bovary |
| One of George Eliot's finest novels, detailing how people are shaped by their social mediums in addition to their own choices | Middlemarch |
| English author of "The House of Seven Gables" | Hardy |
| FTP identify this English author of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," "Bleak House," and "Great Expectations" | Dickens (accept Charles Dickens) |
| Russian author best known for works such as "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace" | Tolstoy |
| Russian author famous for works such as "The Idiot" and "Crime and Punishment" | Dostoyevsky |
| Russian author of "Fathers and Sons" whose work "Sportsman's Sketches" may have inspired Alexander II to free Russia's serfs | Turgenev |
| Russian realist painter and sculptor of works such as "Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks" | Repin |
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