Science serialized : representation of the sciences in nineteenth-century periodicals /

Essays examining the ways in which the Victorian periodical press presented the scientific developments of the time to general and specialized audiences. Nineteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of periodical literature, with the publication of over 100,000 different magazines and newspapers for...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Dibner Institute
Other Authors: Cantor, G. N., 1943- (Editor), Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2004]
Series:Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Science news > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Science > Periodicals > History > 19th century.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Sciences > Vulgarisation > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sciences > Périodiques > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
Science > Periodicals.
Literature and science.
Science.
Science news.
Great Britain.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 'Let us examine the flower': botany in women's magazines, 1800-1830 / Ann B. Shteir
  • Science, natural theology, and the practice of Christian piety in early-nineteenth-century religious magazines / Jonathan R. Topham
  • Reporting Royal Institution lectures, 1826-1867 / Frank A.J.L. James
  • The physiology of the will: mind, body, and psychology in the periodical literature, 1855-1875 / Roger Smith
  • Sunspots, weather, and the unseen universe: Balfour Stewart's anti-materialist representation of 'energy' in British periodicals / Graeme Gooday
  • 'Improvised Europeans': science and reform in the North American review, 1865-1880 / Crosbie Smith and Ian Higginson
  • The Academy: Europe in England / Gillian Beer
  • Scientists as materialists in the periodical press: Tyndall's Belfast address / Bernard Lightman
  • Science, liberalism, and the ethics of belief: the Contemporary review in 1877 / Helen Small
  • Victorian periodicals and the making of William Kingdon Clifford's posthumous reputation / Gowan Dawson
  • Grant Allen, physiological aesthetics, and the dissemination of Darwin's botany / Jonathan Smith
  • The Butler-Darwin biographical controversy in the Victorian periodical press / James G. Paradis
  • Understanding audiences and misunderstanding audiences: some publics for science / Harriet Ritvo.

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