Making "Nature"
Author | : Melinda Baldwin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2015-08-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780226261454 |
ISBN-13 | : 022626145X |
Rating | : 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Download or read book Making "Nature" written by Melinda Baldwin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature's shifting audience : 1869-1875 -- Nature's contributors and the changing of Britain's scientific guard : 1872-1895 -- Defining the "man of science" in Nature -- Scientific internationalism and scientific nationalism -- Nature, interwar politics, and intellectual freedom -- "It almost came out on its own" : Nature under L.J.F. Brimble and A.J.V. Gale -- Nature, the Cold War, and the rise of the United States -- "Disorderly publication" : Nature and scientific self-policing in the 1980s.