Science in the marketplace
Subtitle: nineteenth-century sites and experiences
By: edited by Aileen Fyfe & Bernard Lightman.
Contributors: Fyfe, Aileen.; Lightman, Bernard V., 1950-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780226276502
Subjects: Science -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses; Science museums -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Science in the marketplace : an introduction / Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman; title: How scientific conversation became shop talk / James A. Secord; title: The diffusion of phrenology through public lecturing / John van Wyhe; title: Lecturing in the spatial economy of science / Bernard Lightman; title: Publishing "popular science" in early nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan R. Topham; title: Sensitive, bashful, and chaste? articulating the mimosa in science / Ann B. Shteir; title: Reading natural history at the British Museum and the Pictorial Museum / Aileen Fyfe; title: Illuminating the expert-consumer relationship in domestic electricity / Graeme Gooday; title: Natural history on display : the collection of Charles Waterton / Victoria Carroll; title: Science at the crystal focus of the world / Richard Bellon; title: "More the aspect of magic than anything natural" : the philosophy of demonstration / Iwan Rhys Morus; title: The museum affect : visiting collections of anatomy and natural history / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti.