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 group of
professional writers and journalists to interpret the larger
meaning of scientific theories in terms they could understand and
in ways they could appreciate. "Victorian Popularizers of Science"
focuses on this important group of men and women who wrote about
science for a general audience in the second half of the nineteenth
century.
Bernard Lightman examines more than thirty of the most prolific,
influential, and interesting popularizers of the day, investigating
the dramatic lecturing techniques, vivid illustrations, and
accessible literary styles they used to communicate with their
audience. By focusing on a forgotten coterie of science writers,
their publishers, and their public, Lightman offers new insights
into the role of women in scientific inquiry, the market for
scientific knowledge, tensions between religion and science, and
the complexities of scientific authority in nineteenth-century
Britain.
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