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

Author: G N Cantor; Sally Shuttleworth
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Series: Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The essays collected in Science serialized examine the variety of ways in which the nineteenth-century periodical press represented science to general and specialised readerships ... Among the subjects discussed are the presentation of botany in women's magazines, the highly public dispute between Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler, the mind-body problem, and energy physics."--Dust-jacket.
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Genre/Form: Geschichte 1800-1900
Periodicals
Périodiques
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: G N Cantor; Sally Shuttleworth
ISBN: 0262033186 9780262033183
OCLC Number: 52878881
Description: vi, 358 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
Responsibility: edited by Geoffrey Cantor and Sally Shuttleworth.
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