Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature

Magazines and periodicals played a far greater role than books in influencing the Victorians' understanding of the new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine of their era. This book identifies and analyzes the presentation of science in the periodical press in Britain between 1800 and 1900.

Author: Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/03/2007
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780521049788

About the Author
Cantor, Geoffrey: - 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).Dawson, Gowan: - Gowan Dawson is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. He has published articles on the interrelations of Victorian science and literature.Gooday, Graeme: - 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).
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