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.
Temas:
1800-1899
Science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Technical writing > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Rédaction technique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SCIENCE > History.
Science
Social conditions
Technical writing
Wetenschappelijke publicaties.
Popularisering.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Great Britain
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historians, popularizers, and the Victorian scene
  • Anglican theologies of nature in a post-Darwinian era
  • Redefining the maternal tradition
  • The showmen of science : wood, pepper, and visual spectacle
  • The evolution of the evolutionary epic
  • The science periodical : Proctor and the conduct of "knowledge"
  • Practitioners enter the field : Huxley and Ball as popularizers
  • Science writing on New Grub Street
  • Conclusion: Remapping the terrain.

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