Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Science periodicals in 19th century Britain
Science periodicals in XIXth century Britain
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| Other authors / contributors: | Dawson, Gowan, editor, author.
Lightman, Bernard V., 1950- editor, author.
Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952- editor, author.
Topham, Jonathan R., editor, author.
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| ISBN: | 9780226683461
022668346X
9780226676517
022667651X
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index
Description based on print version record
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| Summary: | "Significant characteristics of modern scientific journals, including their role in the certification and registration of scientific knowledge, emerged only toward the end of the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. The nineteenth century was a period of rapid expansion and diversification in scientific periodicals, and this collection sets the historical exploration of those periodicals on a new footing, examining their distinctive purposes and character. Specifically, it shows the important role they played in expanding, developing, and organizing communities of scientific practitioners and devotees during a century that witnessed blanket transformations in the scientific enterprise"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Science periodicals in nineteenth-century Britain. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020] 9780226676517
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