Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences by Bernard Lightman

Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences

Bernard Lightman

568 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced
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The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time The Origin of Species was published in 1859, the British public looked not to practicing scientists but to a growing gr...

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