Science for all : the popularization of science in early twentieth-century Britain /
Recent scholarship has revealed that pioneering Victorian scientists endeavored through voluminous writing to raise public interest in science and its implications. But it has generally been assumed that once science became a profession around the turn of the century, this new generation of scientis...
| Основен автор: | Bowler, Peter J. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=301505 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Science for all. |
| Резюме: |
Recent scholarship has revealed that pioneering Victorian scientists endeavored through voluminous writing to raise public interest in science and its implications. But it has generally been assumed that once science became a profession around the turn of the century, this new generation of scientists turned its collective back on public outreach. Science for All debunks this apocryphal notion. Peter J. Bowler surveys the books, serial works, magazines, and newspapers published between 1900 and the outbreak of World War II to show that practicing scientists were very active in writing about the. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 339 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226068664 0226068668 |