Review of Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences; Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences
Bernard Lightman, Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xviii + 545. $45. Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman, eds., Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences. Chicago: University of Chicago...
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University of California Press
2011
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| Samenvatting: | Bernard Lightman, Victorian Popularizers
of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xviii + 545. $45.
Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman,
eds., Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x + 410. $45.
The Darwin year showed clearly that, at least
in 2009, science was far from the exclusive preserve of scientists. The
bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the sesquicentenary of the publication
of his most important book were celebrated on a global scale. His
scientific heirs observed these anniversaries with predictable scholarly
pomp and circumstance. More striking were the number and scale of
commemorations directed to the general public, as well as the enthusiasm
with which they were received. Along with a spate of new and resuscitated
books came lectures, conferences, tours, and exhibits. Every
institution with a link to the man or his theory eagerly joined in the
celebration—which is not, of course, to say that either Charles Darwin
or his theory of evolution by natural selection has been universally embraced.
It remains controversial outside the scientific community—in
some ways more controversial than it was when originally proposed. |
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