Author: Theodore Evelyn Reece Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Hutchinson's Splendour of the Heavens
Author: Theodore Evelyn Reece Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Hutchinson's Splendour of the Heavens
Author: Theodore Evelyn Reece Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 976
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Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 976
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Technical Book Review Index
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
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Science for All
Author: Peter J. Bowler
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226068668
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Recent scholarship has revealed that pioneering Victorian scientists endeavored through voluminous writing to raise public interest in science and its implications. But it has generally been assumed that once science became a profession around the turn of the century, this new generation of scientists turned its collective back on public outreach. Science for All debunks this apocryphal notion. Peter J. Bowler surveys the books, serial works, magazines, and newspapers published between 1900 and the outbreak of World War II to show that practicing scientists were very active in writing about their work for a general readership. Science for All argues that the social environment of early twentieth-century Britain created a substantial market for science books and magazines aimed at those who had benefited from better secondary education but could not access higher learning. Scientists found it easy and profitable to write for this audience, Bowler reveals, and because their work was seen as educational, they faced no hostility from their peers. But when admission to colleges and universities became more accessible in the 1960s, this market diminished and professional scientists began to lose interest in writing at the nonspecialist level. Eagerly anticipated by scholars of scientific engagement throughout the ages, Science for All sheds light on our own era and the continuing tension between science and public understanding.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226068668
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Recent scholarship has revealed that pioneering Victorian scientists endeavored through voluminous writing to raise public interest in science and its implications. But it has generally been assumed that once science became a profession around the turn of the century, this new generation of scientists turned its collective back on public outreach. Science for All debunks this apocryphal notion. Peter J. Bowler surveys the books, serial works, magazines, and newspapers published between 1900 and the outbreak of World War II to show that practicing scientists were very active in writing about their work for a general readership. Science for All argues that the social environment of early twentieth-century Britain created a substantial market for science books and magazines aimed at those who had benefited from better secondary education but could not access higher learning. Scientists found it easy and profitable to write for this audience, Bowler reveals, and because their work was seen as educational, they faced no hostility from their peers. But when admission to colleges and universities became more accessible in the 1960s, this market diminished and professional scientists began to lose interest in writing at the nonspecialist level. Eagerly anticipated by scholars of scientific engagement throughout the ages, Science for All sheds light on our own era and the continuing tension between science and public understanding.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Halley's Comet
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Category : Halley's comet
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Category : Halley's comet
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Nature
Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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A.L.A. Catalog, 1926
Author: Isabella Mitchell Cooper
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
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The Chaldaean
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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