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Title Science serialized : representation of the sciences in nineteenth-century periodicals / edited by Geoffrey Cantor and Sally Shuttleworth.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 358 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject Science news -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Science news.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and science.
Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Science.
Science -- 19th century -- Periodicals -- History.
Periodicals.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Periodicals.
Periodicals.
Added Author Cantor, G. N., 1943-
Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952-
Other Form: Print version: Science serialized. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004 0262033186 (DLC) 2003061111 (OCoLC)52878881
ISBN 9780262269827 (electronic book)
0262269821 (electronic book)