Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 45)

Cantor, Geoffrey; Dawson, Gowan; Gooday, Graeme; Noakes, Richard; Shuttleworth, Sally; Topham, Jonathan R.

ISBN 10: 0521049784 / ISBN 13: 9780521049788

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 45)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521049784
• ISBN-13: 9780521049788
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

This book identifies and analyses the presentation of science in the periodical press in Britain between 1800 and 1900.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Geoffrey Cantor is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Leeds and co-Director (with Sally Shuttleworth) of the 'Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical' (SciPer) project. Among his publications are Michael Faraday, Sandemanian and Scientist (1991) and, with John Hedley Brooke, Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion (1998).

Gowan Dawson is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. He has published articles on the interrelations of Victorian science and literature.

Graeme Gooday is Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Leeds. He is the author of The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice (Cambridge 2004).

Richard Noakes is British Academy-Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge. He has published on the history of Victorian physical sciences and spiritualism and is the co-editor (with Kevin Knox) of From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics (Cambridge, 2003).

Sally Shuttleworth is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. She has worked extensively on the relations between science and literature. Her books in this area include Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology (1996), and Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts, 1830–1890 (with Jenny Bourne Taylor, 1998).