Author: Geoffrey MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Modern Chemistry and Its Wonders
Author: Geoffrey MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Book Review Digest
Author: Monthly Record of Scientific Literature
Author: Bulletin
Author: Carnegie Library of AtlantaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
New Technical Books
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: British Books
Author: Report
Author: Indiana State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Science for All
Author: Peter J. BowlerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226068668
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
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 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 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. Scientists found it easy and profitable to write for this audience, Bowler reveals, and because their work was seen as educational, they faced no hostility from their peers. But when admission to colleges and universities became more accessible in the 1960s, this market diminished and professional scientists began to lose interest in writing at the nonspecialist level. Eagerly anticipated by scholars of scientific engagement throughout the ages, Science for All sheds light on our own era and the continuing tension between science and public understanding.
Biennial Report
Author: Indiana State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description