Books written by Gowan Dawson
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Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media
George Cruikshank's view of Murphy's humbug portrayed the crowds besieging a printer and the author as a barometer and thermometer, clutching a money bag and slily touching the side of his nose. George Cruikshank, 'Almaniac DaydA Rush ...
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Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature
This book identifies and analyzes the presentation of science in the periodical press in Britain between 1800 and 1900.
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Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media
Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical ...
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Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Constructing Scientific Communities
Hinton, D.A. “Popular Science in England, 1830–1870.” PhD diss., University of Bath, 1979. Hopwood, Nick, Simon Schaffer, and James A. Secord. “Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Nineteenth Century.” History of Science 48 (2010): ...
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Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Constructing Scientific Communities
Constructing Scientific Communities Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Sally Shuttleworth, Jonathan R. Topham ... William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008.
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Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
112 Convinced that Owen's “intention of course was to insult me as publicly . . . as possible & to give rise to the idea in the public mind that he had to a certain extent superseded me,” Huxley saw no alternative, as he told Dyster, ...
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Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature
This book identifies and analyzes the presentation of science in the periodical press in Britain between 1800 and 1900.
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Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Show Me the Bone tells the story of the rise and fall of this famous claim, tracing its fortunes from Europe to America and showing how it persisted in popular science and literature and shaped the practices of paleontologists long after ...
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Victorian Science and Literature: Victorian science as cultural authority
Victorian Science and Literature: Victorian science as cultural authority
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Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress Image
... Ape to Apollo : Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century ( Ithaca , NY : Cornell University Press , 2002 ) , 208 . 31. On the charts of Camper and Lavater , see Bindman , Ape to Apollo , 202–21 . 32. See Bindman , Ape to ...
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Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 1
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture.
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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II Vol 7
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture.
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Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 2
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture.
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Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity
Ranging in topic from daring climbing expeditions in the Alps to the maintenance of aristocratic protocols of conduct at Kew Gardens, these essays offer a series of new perspectives on Victorian scientific naturalism—as well as its ...