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Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences

"Victorian Popularizers of Science" focuses on the journalists and writers who wrote about science for a general audience in the second half of the nineteenth century. Bernard Lightman examines more…
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Darwin and the popularization of evolution

  • B. Lightman
  • Education, Biology
    Notes and Records of the Royal Society
  • 20 March 2010
TLDR
Traditional texts associated with the intellectual elite, including philosophical or scientific monographs, sermons, and published lectures are investigated in the USA and Britain from 1860 to 1900.
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Science in the marketplace : nineteenth-century sites and experiences

The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time…
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Figuring it out : science, gender, and visual culture

In light of recent debates about the culture of contemporary science and the place of women in scientific fields, Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture offers a timely consideration of…

Marketing knowledge for the general reader: Victorian popularizers of science

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5. ‘A Conspiracy of One’: Butler, Natural Theology, and Victorian Popularization

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Henry Longueville Mansel and the origins of agnosticism

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The Story of Nature: Victorian Popularizers and Scientific Narrative

At the end of the nineteenth century, the Reverend Henry Hutchinson (1856-1927), a popularizer of geology, commented on the explosion of popular science works produced by journalists and writers…
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Huxley and scientific agnosticism: the strange history of a failed rhetorical strategy

  • B. Lightman
  • Psychology
    The British Journal for the History of Science
  • 1 September 2002
TLDR
Huxley was reluctant to identify himself unambiguously as an agnostic in public until 1883 and his restricted use of agnostic concepts during the 1870s and 1880s was compromised when other unbelievers sought to capitalize on the polemical advantages of referring to themselves as agnostics.
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The Visual Theology of Victorian Popularizers of Science: From Reverent Eye to Chemical Retina

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This essay examines the use of visual images during the latter half of the nineteenth century in the work of three important popularizers of science, using illustrations and photographs to establish their credibility as trustworthy guides to scientific, moral, and religious truths.
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