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Title:

Science in the marketplace : nineteenth-century sites and experiences / edited by Aileen Fyfe & Bernard Lightman.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

x, 410 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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

Other Authors:

Fyfe, Aileen.
Lightman, Bernard V., 1950-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Science in the marketplace : an introduction / Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman -- How scientific conversation became shop talk / James A. Secord -- The diffusion of phrenology through public lecturing / John van Wyhe -- Lecturing in the spatial economy of science / Bernard Lightman -- Publishing "popular science" in early nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan R. Topham -- Sensitive, bashful, and chaste? articulating the mimosa in science / Ann B. Shteir -- Reading natural history at the British Museum and the Pictorial Museum / Aileen Fyfe -- Illuminating the expert-consumer relationship in domestic electricity / Graeme Gooday -- Natural history on display : the collection of Charles Waterton / Victoria Carroll -- Science at the crystal focus of the world / Richard Bellon -- "More the aspect of magic than anything natural" : the philosophy of demonstration / Iwan Rhys Morus -- The museum affect : visiting collections of anatomy and natural history / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti.

ISBN:

0226276503 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226276502 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)77716577

LCCN:

2007000102

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)