Science, time and space in the late nineteenth-century periodical press

Mussell, James

Science, time and space in the late nineteenth-century periodical press : movable types / James Mussell - England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007. - xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England) .

Movable types --
Astronomy and the representation of space --
Spectacular spaces of science and detection in the Strand Magazine --
Representing the present --
Discovery and the circulation of names --
Periodicity and the rhythms of nineteenth-century science --
Nineteenth-century electricity in the electronic age.

James Mussell] provides historical accounts of scientific controversy, documents references to time and space in the periodical press and follows magazines and journals as they circulate through society to shed new light on the dissemination and distribution of periodicals, authorship and textual authority, and the role of mediation in material culture"--Jacket.

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Science news -- History --
Scientific literature -- Digital publishing.


Communication in science -- Methodology.

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