Dictionary Of Nineteenth Century British Scientists Ed By Bernard Lightman
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Dictionary Of Nineteenth-Century of British Scientists
Author | : Bernard Lightman |
Publisher | : Thoemmes Continuum |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This dictionary contains 1200 entries on figures who had an impact on British science in the 19th century. By examining how the theories and practices of scientists were shaped by Victorian beliefs about religion, gender, imperialism and politics, it examines the development of science.
The Dictionary of Nineteenth-century British Scientists
Author | : Bernard V. Lightman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Victorian Popularizers of Science
Author | : Bernard Lightman |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 565 |
Release | : 2009-10-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226481174 |
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 Lightman examines more than thirty of the most prolific, influential, and interesting popularizers of the day, investigating the dramatic lecturing techniques, vivid illustrations, and accessible literary styles they used to communicate with their audience. By focusing on a forgotten coterie of science writers, their publishers, and their public, Lightman offers new insights into the role of women in scientific inquiry, the market for scientific knowledge, tensions between religion and science, and the complexities of scientific authority in nineteenth-century Britain.
Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author | : Gowan Dawson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2020-03-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022668346X |
Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants in local natural history clubs. In addition to disseminating authorized scientific discovery, they fostered a sense of collective identity among their geographically dispersed and often socially disparate readers by facilitating the reciprocal interchange of ideas and information. As such, they offer privileged access into the workings of scientific communities in the period. The essays in this volume set the historical exploration of the scientific and medical periodicals of the era on a new footing, examining their precise function and role in the making of nineteenth-century science and enhancing our vision of the shifting communities and practices of science in the period. This radical rethinking of the scientific journal offers a new approach to the reconfiguration of the sciences in nineteenth-century Britain and sheds instructive light on contemporary debates about the purpose, practices, and price of scientific journals.