Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age (Repost)
Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age by James A. Secord
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0199675260 | 306 pages | PDF | 8,2 MB
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0199675260 | 306 pages | PDF | 8,2 MB
Whilst political and social events shook continental Europe, scientific developments were changing the way we understood the world. At the height of this change a series of remarkable books about science were published. In Visions of Science, Jim Secord explores a selection of these titles and how they were received, disseminated, and admired.