the popularization of science in early twentieth-century Britain /
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Peter J. Bowler.
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Chicago :
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University of Chicago Press,
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2009.
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1 online resource (x, 339 pages) :
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illustrations
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Rival ideologies of science -- The big picture -- Practical knowledge for all -- Creating an audience -- Bestsellers on big issues -- Publishers' series -- Encyclopedias and serial publications -- Popular science magazines -- Science for the general public -- Big names -- Scientists and other experts -- Epilogue : the 1950s and after.
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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 the.
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242618
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Science for all.
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9780226068633
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Communication in science-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.
Science news-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.