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April 2004
6 x 9, 366 pp., 13 illus.
$40.00/£29.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-03318-6
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-03318-3

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Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology
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Science Serialized
Representations of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
Edited by Geoffrey Cantor and Sally Shuttleworth

1Introduction
Sally Shuttleworth and Geoffrey Cantor
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2"Let Us Examine the Flower": Botany in Women's Magazines, 1800-1830
Ann B. Shteir
17
3Science, Natural Theology, and the Practice of Christian Piety in Early-Nineteenth-Century Religious Magazines
Jonathan R. Topham
37
4Reporting Royal Institution Lectures, 1826-1867
Frank A. J. L. James
67
5The Physiology of the Will: Mind, Body, and Psychology in the Periodical Literature, 1855-1875
Roger Smith
81
6Sunspots, Weather, and the Unseen Universe: Balfour Stewart's Anti-Materialist Representations of "Energy" in British Periodicals
Graeme Gooday
111
7"Improvised Europeans": Science and Reform in the North American Review, 1865-1880
Crosbie Smith and Ian Higginson
149
8The Academy: Europe in England
Gillian Beer
181
9Scientists as Materialists in the Periodical Press: Tyndall's Belfast Address
Bernard Lightman
199
10Science, Liberalism, and the Ethics of Belief: The Contemporary Review in 1877
Helen Small
239
11Victorian Periodicals and the Making of William Kingdon Clifford's Posthumous Reputation
Gowan Dawson
259
12Grant Allen, Physiological Aesthetics, and the Dissemination of Darwin's Botany
Jonathan Smith
285
13The Butler-Darwin Biographical Controversy in the Victorian Periodical Press
James Paradis
307
14Understanding Audiences and Misunderstanding Audiences: Some Publics for Science
Harriet Ritvo
331
About the Authors351
Index
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