Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical

Reading the Magazine of Nature

• Author(s): Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, Jonathan R. Topham,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 348
• ISBN_10: 0521049784
  ISBN_13: 9780521049788
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / General , Science / History ,

Description:... Magazines and periodicals played a far greater role than books in influencing the Victorians' understanding of the new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine of their era. This book identifies and analyzes the presentation of science in the periodical press in Britain between 1800 and 1900.