Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science
330 Thurs in fi lms, or on the Internet. Appeal to the new technologies available in everything from electronic devices to hair ...
Scientifi c Methods 331 the Library of Congress (http: // catalog.loc .gov / ), Periodical Contents Index (recently renamed Peri ...
332 Thurs Victorian Britain (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1993); Richard Yeo, “Scien- tifi c Method and the Rhetori ...
Scientifi c Methods 333 Thurs, Science Talk, 69–84. Gerald J. Baldasty, The Commercialization of the News in the Nineteenth Cen ...
334 Thurs ing role in popularizing the notion of multiple working hypotheses, see Susan Schultz, “Thomas C. Chamberlin: An Intel ...
Scientifi c Methods 335 George Gallup, “A Scientifi c Method for Determining Reader- Interest,” Journalism Quar- terly, March 19 ...
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337 Science, William Whewell warned in 1834, is disintegrating like “a great empire falling to pieces.” The Master of Trinity Co ...
338 Lightman science.” Feelings of admiration would arise in his readers, he believed, when they discovered that “the work of wh ...
Science and the Public 339 clergy, even the unifying thread of religion was threatened. Scientifi c naturalists repudiated super ...
340 Lightman be brought to their lecture- rooms and tested.” No doubt, the journalist admitted, it is a great thing “to extend t ...
Science and the Public 341 THE GENTLEMEN OF SCIENCE AND NATURAL THEOLOGY In the fi rst half of the nineteenth century, the scien ...
342 Lightman Institution lecture theatre in 1802, Davy concluded with a comforting vi- sion of the social function of chemistry. ...
Science and the Public 343 the gentlemen of science were convinced that true knowledge would lead to the recognition of a divine ...
344 Lightman to England while on the Rattlesnake brought him to the attention of some of the gentlemen of science. When he retur ...
Science and the Public 345 man.”^19 In this intellectual atmosphere whoever could lay claim to speak on behalf of science could ...
346 Lightman October to June. The X- Club wielded tremendous power in the scientifi c world.^23 Its formation allowed club membe ...
Science and the Public 347 Gould pursued a program of improving the state of American astronomy by disseminating German methodol ...
348 Lightman never liked Whewell’s coinage “scientist,” as he considered it to be an unscholarly Americanism.^31 In 1894 he rema ...
Science and the Public 349 ticed in his laboratory at South Kensington, a newly built facility com- pleted in 1871.^35 But admit ...
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