Performing scientific naturalism: the popular scientific lecture and Victorian culture, c. 1860-1890
<p>This thesis situates popular science lectures within broader Victorian cultures of public speech. In so doing, it argues that scientific naturalists such as Thomas Henry Huxley, John Tyndall and Robert Stawell Ball, adopted the lecture form as a specific tool with which to persuade the publ...
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2016
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