Victorian Popularizers of Science

Bernard Lightman

ISBN 10: 0226481182 / ISBN 13: 9780226481180

Edité par University Of Chicago Press Nov 2007, 2007

A propos de cet article

Neuware - 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.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Victorian Popularizers of Science
• Éditeur: University Of Chicago Press Nov 2007
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0226481182
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226481180
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 90 L x 60 H x 39 P (en millimètres) 90 millimètres de largeur par 60 millimètres de hauteur par 39 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 892 grammes

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Synopsis

The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time The Origin of Species was published in 1859, the British public looked not to practicing scientists but to a growing group of professional writers and journalists to interpret the larger meaning of scientific theories in terms they could understand and in ways they could appreciate. Victorian Popularizers of Science focuses on this important group of men and women 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, influential, and interesting popularizers of the day, investigating the dramatic lecturing techniques, vivid illustrations, and accessible literary styles they used to communicate with their audience. By focusing on a forgotten coterie of science writers, their publishers, and their public, 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.

À propos de l'auteur

Bernard Lightman is distinguished research professor in the Humanities Department at York University and president of the History of Science Society.