Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Constructing Scientific Communities

Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Constructing Scientific Communities
ISBN-10
022667651X
ISBN-13
9780226676517
Category
History
Pages
424
Language
English
Published
2020
Authors
Gowan Dawson, Sally Shuttleworth, Jonathan R. Topham

Description

"Significant characteristics of modern scientific journals, including their role in the certification and registration of scientific knowledge, emerged only toward the end of the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. The nineteenth century was a period of rapid expansion and diversification in scientific periodicals, and this collection sets the historical exploration of those periodicals on a new footing, examining their distinctive purposes and character. Specifically, it shows the important role they played in expanding, developing, and organizing communities of scientific practitioners and devotees during a century that witnessed blanket transformations in the scientific enterprise"--

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