Book ID: CBB000750915

The Victorian Scientist: The Growth of a Profession (2004)

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Meadows, Arthur Jack (Author)


British Library
Publication date: 2004
Language: English


Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: vi + 202 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index

Description “Tracks the growth of laboratories and research groups, and the role that new scientific societies, journals and lectures” played in Victorian England with a focus on communication in the sciences. (from the publisher description)


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Review Bellon, Richard (2006) Review of "The Victorian Scientist: The Growth of a Profession". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 174). unapi

Review Opitz, Donald L. (2005) Review of "The Victorian Scientist: The Growth of a Profession". Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (p. 507). unapi

Review Levere, Trevor H. (2006) Review of "The Victorian Scientist: The Growth of a Profession". Canadian Journal of History (p. 393). unapi

Review Moktefi, Amirouche (2006) Review of "The Victorian Scientist: The Growth of a Profession". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 613). unapi

Essay Review Morus, Iwan Rhys (2007) (Stop) Talking About Victorian Science. Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 93-100). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Anderson, Katharine M.
Avramov, Iordan
Bont, Raf de
Cantor, Geoffrey N.
Cavazza, Marta
Fredrich, Augustine J.
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
History of Science
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Publishers
American Society of Civil Engineers
Brepols
Lexington Books
University of Chicago Press
Carnegie Mellon University
Concepts
Periodicals; serials
Societies; institutions; academies
Professions and professionalization
Popular culture
Science and religion
Science and gender
People
Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke
Babbage, Charles
Bentham, George
Dickens, Charles
Freud, Sigmund
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Time Periods
19th century
17th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
Ireland
United States
Mexico
Canada
Germany
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna
Natural History Society of Dublin
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