Victorian Popularizers of Science

图书信息

作者	Bernard Lightman
出版社	University of Chicago Press
ISBN	9780226481173
出版时间	2009-10-15
字数	102.6万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,科技,医学

读书简介

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 Lightman 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. By focusing on a forgotten coterie of science writers, their publishers, and their public, 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.

目录

Preface

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER ONE Historians, Popularizers, and the Victorian Scene

CHAPTER TWO Anglican Theologies of Nature in a Post-Darwinian Era

CHAPTER THREE Redefining the Maternal Tradition

CHAPTER FOUR The Showmen of Science

CHAPTER FIVE The Evolution of the Evolutionary Epic

CHAPTER SIX The Science Periodical

CHAPTER SEVEN Practitioners Enter the Field

CHAPTER EIGHT Science Writing on New Grub Street

Bibliography

CONCLUSION Remapping the Terrain