Science periodicals in nineteenth-century Britain : constructing scientific communities /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Dawson, Gowan (Author, Editor), Lightman, Bernard V., 1950- (Author, Editor), Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952- (Author, Editor), Topham, Jonathan R. (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Science > Great Britain > Periodicals > History > 19th century. Medicine > Great Britain > Periodicals > History > 19th century. Science journalism > Great Britain > History > 19th century. SCIENCE > General. Medicine > Periodicals. Science. Science journalism. Great Britain. 1800-1899 Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: constructing scientific communities / Gowan Dawson and Jonathan R. Topham
New formats for new readers. Scientific, medical, and technical periodicals in nineteenth-century Britain: new formats for new readers / Gowan Dawson and Jonathan R. Topham ; Redrawing the image of science: technologies of illustration and the audiences for scientific periodicals in Britain, 1790-1840 / Jonathan R. Topham ; Proceedings and the public: how a commercial genre transformed science / Alex Csiszar
Defining the communities of science. "An independent publication for geologists": The Geological Society, commercial journals, and the remaking of nineteenth-century geology / Gowan Dawson ; Natural history periodicals and changing conceptions of the naturalist community, 1828-65 / Geoffrey Belknap ; "The sympathy of a crowd": imagining scientific communities in mid-nineteenth-century entomology periodicals / Matthew Wale ; Periodical physics in Britain: institutional and industrial contexts, 1870-1900 / Graeme Gooday ; Late Victorian Astronomical Society journals: creating scientific communities on paper / Bernard Lightman
Managing the boundaries of medicine. "A borderland in ethics": medical journals, the public and the medical profession in nineteenth-century Britain / Sally Frampton ; "National health is national wealth": publics, professions, and the rise of the public health journal / Sally Shuttleworth.