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Science in the marketplace : nineteenth-century sites and experiences /
(Publisher-supplied data) The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportuni...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Science in the marketplace : an introduction / Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman
- How scientific conversation became shop talk / James A. Secord
- The diffusion of phrenology through public lecturing / John van Wyhe
- Lecturing in the spatial economy of science / Bernard Lightman
- Publishing "popular science" in early nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan R. Topham
- Sensitive, bashful, and chaste? articulating the mimosa in science / Ann B. Shteir
- Reading natural history at the British Museum and the Pictorial Museum / Aileen Fyfe
- Illuminating the expert-consumer relationship in domestic electricity / Graeme Gooday
- Natural history on display : the collection of Charles Waterton / Victoria Carroll
- Science at the crystal focus of the world / Richard Bellon
- "More the aspect of magic than anything natural" : the philosophy of demonstration / Iwan Rhys Morus
- The museum affect : visiting collections of anatomy and natural history / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti.