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The Resource Victorian popularizers of science : designing nature for new audiences, Bernard Lightman

Victorian popularizers of science : designing nature for new audiences, Bernard Lightman

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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 Light
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 545 pages)
Contents
  • Historians, popularizers, and the Victorian scene
  • Anglican theologies of nature in a post-Darwinian era
  • Redefining the maternal tradition
  • The showmen of science : wood, pepper, and visual spectacle
  • The evolution of the evolutionary epic
  • The science periodical : Proctor and the conduct of "knowledge"
  • Practitioners enter the field : Huxley and Ball as popularizers
  • Science writing on New Grub Street
  • Conclusion: Remapping the terrain
Isbn
9780226481173
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Victorian popularizers of science : designing nature for new audiences
Title
Victorian popularizers of science
Title remainder
designing nature for new audiences
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Bernard Lightman
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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 Light
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1950-
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Lightman, Bernard V.
Dewey number
509.41/09034
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
Q127.G4
LC item number
L54 2007eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • Science
  • Technical writing
  • Great Britain
  • SCIENCE
  • Science
  • Social conditions
  • Technical writing
  • Great Britain
  • Wetenschappelijke publicaties
  • Popularisering
  • Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland
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Victorian popularizers of science : designing nature for new audiences, Bernard Lightman
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Publication
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unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-533) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Historians, popularizers, and the Victorian scene -- Anglican theologies of nature in a post-Darwinian era -- Redefining the maternal tradition -- The showmen of science : wood, pepper, and visual spectacle -- The evolution of the evolutionary epic -- The science periodical : Proctor and the conduct of "knowledge" -- Practitioners enter the field : Huxley and Ball as popularizers -- Science writing on New Grub Street -- Conclusion: Remapping the terrain
Control code
489130019
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 545 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780226481173
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations
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not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)489130019
Label
Victorian popularizers of science : designing nature for new audiences, Bernard Lightman
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-533) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Historians, popularizers, and the Victorian scene -- Anglican theologies of nature in a post-Darwinian era -- Redefining the maternal tradition -- The showmen of science : wood, pepper, and visual spectacle -- The evolution of the evolutionary epic -- The science periodical : Proctor and the conduct of "knowledge" -- Practitioners enter the field : Huxley and Ball as popularizers -- Science writing on New Grub Street -- Conclusion: Remapping the terrain
Control code
489130019
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 545 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780226481173
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)489130019

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