Science in the marketplace : nineteenth-century sites and experiences

Publication Data

• Title Science in the marketplace : nineteenth-century sites and experiences
• Contributors Aileen Fyfe, Bernard V. Lightman
• Publisher University of Chicago Press
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location Chicago, Ill.
• Language English

Contents

Science in the marketplace : an introduction / Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman
How scientific conversation became shop talk / James A. Secord
The diffusion of phrenology through public lecturing / John van Wyhe
Lecturing in the spatial economy of science / Bernard Lightman
Publishing "popular science" in early nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan R. Topham
Sensitive, bashful, and chaste? articulating the mimosa in science / Ann B. Shteir
Reading natural history at the British Museum and the Pictorial Museum / Aileen Fyfe
Illuminating the expert-consumer relationship in domestic electricity / Graeme Gooday
Natural history on display : the collection of Charles Waterton / Victoria Carroll
Science at the crystal focus of the world / Richard Bellon
"More the aspect of magic than anything natural" : the philosophy of demonstration / Iwan Rhys Morus
The museum affect : visiting collections of anatomy and natural history / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti.

Topics

• Science :: Social aspects :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century :: Congresses
• Science museums :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century :: Congresses
• Great Britain :: Intellectual life :: 19th century :: Congresses
• Great Britain

Science in the marketplace : nineteenth-century sites and experiences. ISBN 9780226276502. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.