Christmas At The Royal Institution: An Anthology Of Lectures By M Faraday, J Tyndall, R S Ball, S P Thompson, E R Lankester, W H Bragg, W L Bragg, R L ... W. L. Bragg, R. L. Gregory, and I. Stewart - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9812771085 ISBN 13: 9789812771087

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

Since the mid-1820s, a series of lectures has been delivered each year over the Christmas period in the world-famous Faraday Lecture Theatre at The Royal Institution of Great Britain by prominent scientists, addressed specifically to an audience of children. Initially made accessible in book form, the lectures have been nationally televised throughout the UK and distributed worldwide since the 1960s, making them accessible to an even larger audience. The importance of these lectures in promoting science to a broad audience is perhaps best gauged by the fact that an image of one of Faraday's lectures appeared on the Bank of England £20 note in the 1990s.This anthology brings together, for the first time, a carefully chosen selection of 11 lectures from the 1860s to the 1990s. The selection includes lectures by Michael Faraday, arguably the most important and influential 19th-century physicist, and Lawrence Bragg, the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Prize. Through this work, readers will come to grips with the changing nature of popular science lectures over the past 140 years.

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The selection of Royal Institution Christmas Lectures by a range of performers, from Faraday himself to the present day, allows a fascinating glimpse at the continuities and discontinuities of public science ... It is revealing of the shifting cultural place of scientific performances and their technologies particularly as one reads between the lines of text to catch tantalizing glimpses of the practicalities of public performance that lie beneath. --The British Journal for the History of Science

Synopsis

Since the mid-1820s, a series of lectures has been delivered each year over the Christmas period in the world-famous Faraday Lecture Theatre at The Royal Institution of Great Britain by prominent scientists, addressed specifically to an audience of children. Initially made accessible in book form, the lectures have been nationally televised throughout the UK and distributed worldwide since the 1960s, making them accessible to an even larger audience. The importance of these lectures in promoting science to a broad audience is perhaps best gauged by the fact that an image of one of Faraday's lectures appeared on the Bank of England GBP20 note in the 1990s.This anthology brings together, for the first time, a carefully chosen selection of 11 lectures from the 1860s to the 1990s. The selection includes lectures by Michael Faraday, arguably the most important and influential 19th-century physicist, and Lawrence Bragg, the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Prize. Through this work, readers will come to grips with the changing nature of popular science lectures over the past 140 years.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9812771085
• ISBN 13: 9789812771087
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: James Frank A J L