Diarmid A Finnegan

Gebundenes Buch

The Voice of Science

British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America

Beschreibung

How Five Celebrity Scientists Used the Art of Public Speech to Advocate for Science as a Powerful Agent for Cultural Change

Autor

Diarmid A. Finnegan is senior lecturer in human geography at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland and coeditor of Spaces of Global Knowledge: Exhibition, Encounter and Exchange in an Age of Empire and The Correspondence of John Tyndall, volume 7. His current research centers on the history of science and religion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 231mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780822946816
• ISBN-10: 0822946815
• Artikelnr.: 61261185