Description: Magazines and periodicals played a far greater role than books in influencing the Victorians' understanding of the new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine of their era. This book identifies and analyzes the presentation of science in the periodical press in Britain between 1800 and 1900.
Brief description: Geoffrey Cantor is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Leeds and co-Director (with Sally Shuttleworth) of the 'Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical' (SciPer) project. Among his publications are Michael Faraday, Sandemanian and Scientist (1991) and, with John Hedley Brooke, Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion (1998).
Review Quotes: "In a refreshing change from the emphasis on the organic sciences, which tend to dominate the scholarship in tehse periodicals, Graeme Gooday shows how various late-Victorian journals passed from didacticism to advertising, talking up the future technological role of electricity."Victorian Studies, Richard Yeo, Griffith University