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Victorian Popularizers of Science – Designing Nature for New Audiences - Softcover

Lightman, Bernard

 
9780226481197: Victorian Popularizers of Science – Designing Nature for New Audiences
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226481190 ISBN 13: 9780226481197
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2010

Synopsis

"Victorian Popularizers of Science" focuses on the journalists and writers who wrote about science for a general audience in the second half of the nineteenth century. Bernard Lightman examines more than thirty of the most prolific and influential popularizers of the day, investigating how they communicated with their audience. By focusing on a forgotten coterie of science writers, Lightman offers new insights into the role of women in scientific inquiry, the market for scientific knowledge, tensions between religion and science, and the complexities of scientific authority in nineteenth-century Britain.

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About the Author

Bernard Lightman is professor of humanities at York University, Toronto, editor of the journal Isis, editor of Victorian Science in Context, and coeditor of Science in the Marketplace, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226481190
ISBN 13 
9780226481197
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
568