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Victorian popularizers of science : designing nature for new audiences /

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 interp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lightman, Bernard V., 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 Light.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 545 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-533) and index.
ISBN:9780226481173
0226481174