VICTORIAN POPULARIZERS OF SCIENCE by Bernard Lightman ( 9780226481197 )

Item Details

Title:

VICTORIAN POPULARIZERS OF SCIENCE
DESIGNING NATURE FOR NEW AUDIENCES

By:

Bernard Lightman

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£40.00

Our price:

£36.00

Discount:

10% off

You save:

£4.00

ISBN 10:

0226481190

ISBN 13:

9780226481197

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

1 May, 2010

Pages:

528

Description:

Focuses on the journalists and writers who wrote about science for a general audience in the second half of the nineteenth century. This title examines more than thirty of the popularizers of the day, investigating how they communicated with their audience. It offers insights into the role of women in scientific inquiry.

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.

Illustrations:

68 halftones, 2 tables

Publication:

Imprint:

University of Chicago Press

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE (HB)

CREATING THE JEWISH FUTURE (HB)

EVOLUTIONARY NATURALISM IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN