Author: Stella Pratt-Smith

  • Lightman, Bernard, Victorian Popularizers of Science

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    Stella Pratt-Smith

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    Bernard Lightman, Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). 564 pp. £31 hb. ISBN 0226481182. If there is one text that should be compulsory reading in science and literature in the nineteenth century, it must surely be this. It may have taken fifteen years to produce but…

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