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Author Fyfe, Aileen.

Title Science and salvation : evangelical popular science publishing in Victorian Britain / Aileen Fyfe.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 325 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-309) and index.
Contents The threat of popular science -- Christian knowledge -- Reading fish -- The techniques of evangelical publishing -- The ministry of the press -- Reinterpreting science.
Summary Aileen Fyfe examines the emergence of a popular science literature in early Victorian Britain, which was laregly stimulated by the Religious Tract Society. Anxious that science & faith were becoming seen as mutually exclusive, the RTS embarked on an ambitious publishing venture.
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Subject Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) -- History -- 19th century.
Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) -- History -- 19th century.
Religious Tract Society.
Religion and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Religion and science.
Great Britain.
Science publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Science publishing.
Evangelicalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Evangelicalism.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1840-1860
1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Fyfe, Aileen. Science and salvation. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004 0226276473 (DLC) 2003017513 (OCoLC)52895247
ISBN 9780226276465 (electronic book)
0226276465 (electronic book)
0226276473
9780226276472
0226276481
9780226276489

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