Getting science across

British Journal for the History of Science

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 129-138

  Knight, David ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0004618434     PISSN: 00070874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s000708740003418x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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21. See the Introduction to the Quarterly Journal of Science (1864), 1, especially 11f., 22; F. Abbri, 'Romanticism versus Enlightenment: Sir Humphry Davy's idea of chemical philosophy', in Romanticism in Science (ed. S. Poggi and M. Bossi), Dordrecht, 1994, 31-45; Smith, op. cit. (14), 231; B. Lightman, The Origins of Agnosticism: Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge, Baltimore, 1987, 148f. ; and D. M. Knight, 'Science and culture in mid-Victorian Britain', Nuncius (1996), forthcoming.
22. See the Introduction to the Quarterly Journal of Science (1864), 1, especially 11f., 22; F. Abbri, 'Romanticism versus Enlightenment: Sir Humphry Davy's idea of chemical philosophy', in Romanticism in Science (ed. S. Poggi and M. Bossi), Dordrecht, 1994, 31-45; Smith, op. cit. (14), 231; B. Lightman, The Origins of Agnosticism: Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge, Baltimore, 1987, 148f. ; and D. M. Knight, 'Science and culture in mid-Victorian Britain', Nuncius (1996), forthcoming.
23. See the Introduction to the Quarterly Journal of Science (1864), 1, especially 11f., 22; F. Abbri, 'Romanticism versus Enlightenment: Sir Humphry Davy's idea of chemical philosophy', in Romanticism in Science (ed. S. Poggi and M. Bossi), Dordrecht, 1994, 31-45; Smith, op. cit. (14), 231; B. Lightman, The Origins of Agnosticism: Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge, Baltimore, 1987, 148f. ; and D. M. Knight, 'Science and culture in mid-Victorian Britain', Nuncius (1996), forthcoming.
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