Science in the marketplace : nineteenth-century sites and experiences /

Other Authors: Fyfe, Aileen,
Format: Book
Language:English
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=11017165
Table of Contents:
  • Science in the marketplace : an introduction / Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman
  • How scientific conversation became shop talk / James A. Secord
  • The diffusion of phrenology through public lecturing / John van Wyhe
  • Lecturing in the spatial economy of science / Bernard Lightman
  • Publishing "popular science" in early nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan R. Topham
  • Sensitive, bashful, and chaste? articulating the mimosa in science / Ann B. Shteir
  • Reading natural history at the British Museum and the Pictorial Museum / Aileen Fyfe
  • Illuminating the expert-consumer relationship in domestic electricity / Graeme Gooday
  • Natural history on display : the collection of Charles Waterton / Victoria Carroll
  • Science at the crystal focus of the world / Richard Bellon
  • "More the aspect of magic than anything natural" : the philosophy of demonstration / Iwan Rhys Morus
  • The museum affect : visiting collections of anatomy and natural history / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti.