Science in the Marketplace : Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences / Aileen Fyfe, Bernard Lightman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fyfe, Aileen, Editor.

Lightman, Bernard, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century--Congresses.

Science.

Science museums--Great Britain--History--19th century--Congresses.

Science museums.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century--Congresses.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (421 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in science, for education, entertainment, or both. In Victorian Britain science could be encountered in myriad forms and in countless locations: in panoramic shows, exhibitions, and galleries; in city museums and country houses; in popular lectures; and even in domestic conversations that revolved around t

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors

1. Science in the Marketplace: An Introduction

2. How Scientifi c Conversation Became Shop Talk

3. The Diffusion of Phrenology through Public Lecturing

4. Lecturing in the Spatial Economy of Science

5. Publishing "Popular Science" in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain

6. Sensitive, Bashful, and Chaste? Articulating the Mimosa in Science

7. Reading Natural History at the British Museum and the Pictorial Museum

8. Illuminating the Expert-Consumer Relationship in Domestic Electricity

9. Natural History on Display: The Collection of Charles Waterton

10. Science at the Crystal Focus of the World

11. "More the Aspect of Magic than Anything Natural": The Philosophy of Demonstration

12. The Museum Affect: Visiting Collections of Anatomy and Natural History

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226150024

022615002X

OCLC:

902846638