Examines five nineteenth-century British celebrity scientists and their lectures. číst celé
Diarmid A. Finnegan Livres
Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland
- 248pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Winner of the Frank Watson Prize in Scottish History, 2011 The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of civic culture, inculcating virtues necessary for civic progress.