Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Reading the Magazine of Nature

Cantor, Geoffrey & Gowan Dawson & Graeme Gooday & Richard Noakes & Sally Shuttleworth & Jonathan R. Topham

ISBN 10: 0521836379 / ISBN 13: 9780521836371

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004

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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture; 9 X 6.10 X 1 inches; 329 pages.

N° de réf. du vendeur 225864

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Reading the Magazine of Nature
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521836379
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521836371
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Poids: 1,3 livre
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literary Criticism/Literary History/Lit.Theory

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Synopsis

This book identifies and analyses the presentation of science in the periodical press in Britain between 1800 and 1900.

À propos des auteurs

Geoffrey Cantor is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Leeds and co-Director (with Sally Shuttleworth) of the 'Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical' (SciPer) project. Among his publications are Michael Faraday, Sandemanian and Scientist (1991) and, with John Hedley Brooke, Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion (1998).

Gowan Dawson is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. He has published articles on the interrelations of Victorian science and literature.

Graeme Gooday is Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Leeds. He is the author of The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice (Cambridge 2004).

Richard Noakes is British Academy-Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge. He has published on the history of Victorian physical sciences and spiritualism and is the co-editor (with Kevin Knox) of From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics (Cambridge, 2003).

Sally Shuttleworth is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. She has worked extensively on the relations between science and literature. Her books in this area include Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology (1996), and Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts, 1830–1890 (with Jenny Bourne Taylor, 1998).