ヴィクトリア朝の科学啓蒙家たち Victorian Popularizers of Science : Designing Nature for New Audiences

Lightman, Bernard

University of Chicago Press（2010/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 568 p.／サイズ 68 halftones
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780226481197
• DDC分類 509.4109034

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. 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.

Full Description

"Victorian Popularizers of Science" focuses on the journalists and writers 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 and influential popularizers of the day, investigating how they communicated with their audience. By focusing on a forgotten coterie of science writers, 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.