Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science
350 Lightman political speculation that sought to upset “the existing arrangements of society on the faith of deductions” from “ ...
Science and the Public 351 and progressive values, and linked to the industrialists of northern Brit- ain, energy physics was fo ...
352 Lightman and argued that the case must be tried in a forum made up of “instructed men of science.”^45 The resistance of Nort ...
Science and the Public 353 gift, Thomson maintained, and thus through his “studies and successive acquirements” he will be led “ ...
354 Lightman declared, the notion that modern experiments consist principally of mea- surements was so prevalent that scientists ...
Science and the Public 355 audience, not just by sections of the intellectual elite, such as the North British Physicists or the ...
356 Lightman the authority of scientists, depicting them as too specialized and nar- row, and appealed directly to public judgme ...
Science and the Public 357 developments.^57 Although most popularizers did not openly question the authority of scientists as ha ...
358 Lightman in droves, even though Huxley was busily excluding them from profes- sional scientifi c societies. In his bid to up ...
Science and the Public 359 public throughout the seventies and eighties with his many works on extraterrestrial life, was neithe ...
360 Lightman (on which Huxley sat). He was particularly harsh on professional astrono- mers in government observatories, where m ...
Science and the Public 361 own vision of the professional scientist. Just as Whewell was prepared to allow women into the world ...
362 Lightman Huxley and his allies would have taken a dim view of Proctor’s combina- tion of evolutionary theory, pluralism, and ...
Science and the Public 363 to disseminate an authoritative and collective image of science as stable, secular, and comprehensive ...
364 Lightman community resources; through evening study at mechanics’ institutes, community clubs, and pubs; through cooperative ...
Science and the Public 365 fell asleep. Mann’s chief exposure to science seems to have come through a popularizer of science rat ...
366 Lightman universe, Redfern’s interest in astronomy “at once took me away from the Bible.” There was “no earth- centred cosmo ...
Science and the Public 367 PATTERNS OF SCIENCE The nineteenth century is a particularly important period in the history of scien ...
368 Lightman professional scientists, the North British Physicists, the resistance to sci- entifi c naturalism within the scient ...
Science and the Public 369 The failed revolution in 1848 became the impetus for the development of popular science in Germany, a ...
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