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1 Online-Ressource (viii, 400 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780226683461
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Constructing Scientific Communities -- Chapter 1. Scientific, Medical, and Technical Periodicals in Nineteenth- Century Britain: New Formats for New Readers -- Chapter 2. Redrawing the Image of Science: Technologies of Illustration and the Audiences for Scientific Periodicals in Britain, 1790– 1840 -- Chapter 3. Proceedings and the Public: How a Commercial Genre Transformed Science -- Chapter 4. “An Independent Publication for Geologists”: The Geological Society, Commercial Journals, and the Remaking of Nineteenth- Century Geology -- Chapter 5. Natural History Periodicals and Changing Conceptions of the Naturalist Community, 1828– 65 -- Chapter 6. “The Sympathy of a Crowd”: Imagining Scientific Communities in Mid- Nineteenth- Century Entomology Periodicals -- Chapter 7. Periodical Physics in Britain: Institutional and Industrial Contexts, 1870– 1900 -- Chapter 8. Late Victorian Astronomical Society Journals: Creating Scientific Communities on Paper -- Chapter 9. “A Borderland in Ethics”: Medical Journals, the Public, and the Medical Profession in Nineteenth- Century Britain -- Chapter 10. “National Health Is National Wealth”: Publics, Professions, and the Rise of the Public Health Journal -- Acknowledgments -- Select Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index
Content:
Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants in local natural history clubs. In addition to disseminating authorized scientific discovery, they fostered a sense of collective identity among their geographically dispersed and often socially disparate readers by facilitating the reciprocal interchange of ideas and information. As such, they offer privileged access into the workings of scientific communities in the period. The essays in this volume set the historical exploration of the scientific and medical periodicals of the era on a new footing, examining their precise function and role in the making of nineteenth-century science and enhancing our vision of the shifting communities and practices of science in the period. This radical rethinking of the scientific journal offers a new approach to the reconfiguration of the sciences in nineteenth-century Britain and sheds instructive light on contemporary debates about the purpose, practices, and price of scientific journals
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226676517
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Science periodicals in nineteenth-century Britain Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020 ISBN 9780226676517
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Großbritannien
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Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift
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Scientific Community
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.7208/9780226683461
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Author information:
Shuttleworth, Sally 1952-
Author information:
Lightman, Bernard V. 1950-
Author information:
Dawson, Gowan 19XX-
