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Science for All
Peter J. Bowler
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Description for Science for All
Hardcover. Argues that the social environment of early twentieth-century Britain created a substantial market for science books and magazines aimed at those who had benefited from better secondary education but could not access higher learning. Num Pages: 352 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; PDX. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 596.
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 twentieth 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 their work for a general readership. "Science for All" ... Read more
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 twentieth 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 their work for a general readership. "Science for All" ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226068633
SKU
V9780226068633
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About Peter J. Bowler
Peter J. Bowler is professor of the history of science at Queen's University Belfast, coauthor of Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey, and the author of Life's Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry, 1860-1940 and Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early Twentieth-Century Britain, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Science for All
"This is a valuable contribution to the study of popular science in the twentieth century. Science for All will go a long way toward providing a much-needed first exploration of the period." - Peter Broks, University of the West of England"