The Voice of Science - British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America

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

About the author

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.

Summary

Examines five nineteenth-century British celebrity scientists and their lectures.

Product details

• Authors: Diarmid A Finnegan, Diarmid A. Finnegan
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9780822946816
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-4681-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 231 mm x 160 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 617 g
• Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteent; Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century; Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)