Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and
medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating
from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to
audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan
societies to working-class participants in local natural history
clubs. In addition to disseminating authorized scientific
discovery, they fostered a sense of collective identity among their
geographically dispersed and often socially disparate readers by
facilitating the reciprocal interchange of ideas and information.
As such, they offer privileged access into the workings of
scientific communities in the period. The essays in this volume set
the historical exploration of the scientific and medical
periodicals of the era on a new footing, examining their precise
function and role in the making of nineteenth-century science and
enhancing our vision of the shifting communities and practices of
science in the period. This radical rethinking of the scientific
journal offers a new approach to the reconfiguration of the
sciences in nineteenth-century Britain and sheds instructive light
on contemporary debates about the purpose, practices, and price of
scientific journals.
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