Science periodicals in nineteenth-century Britain : constructing scientific communities / Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Sally Shuttleworth and Jonathan R. Topham.

Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants in...

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