Science and Salvation : Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain.

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Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society's autho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fyfe, Aileen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Temas:
Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) > History > 19th century.
Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
1800-1899
Religion and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Science publishing > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Evangelicalism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Religion et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Édition scientifique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Évangélisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Evangelicalism
Religion and science
Science publishing
Great Britain
History
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Sumario:Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society's authors employed a full repertoire of evangelical techniques--low prices, simple language, carefully structured narratives--to convert their readers. The application of such techniques to popular science resulted in one of the most widely available sources of information on the sciences in the Victorian era. A f.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (343 pages)
ISBN:9780226276465
0226276465
1283150735
9781283150736

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