A view from the industrial age

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Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 431-442

  Topham, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33645829420     PISSN: 00211753     EISSN: 15456994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/428962     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Roger Chartier, "Texts, Printings, Readings," in The New Cultural History, ed. Lynn Hunt (Berkeley: Univ. California Press, 1989), pp. 154-175.
2. Robert Darnton, "First Steps toward a History of Reading," in The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History (New York/London: Norton, 1990), pp. 154-187.
3. Jonathan Rose, "Rereading the English Common Reader: A Preface to a History of Audiences," Journal of the History of Ideas, 1992, 53:47-70.
4. James Raven, Helen Small, and Naomi Tadmor, "Introduction: The Practice and Representation of Reading in England," in The Practice and Representation of Reading in England, ed. Raven et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), pp. 1-21.
5. Adrian Johns, "Science and the Book in Modern Cultural Historiography," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 1998, 29:167-194.
6. Jan Golinski, "The Theory of Practice and the Practice of Theory: Sociological Approaches in the History of Science," Isis, 1990, 81:492-505, on p. 498.
7. Golinski, Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998), p. 9.
8. Charles Darwin, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 13 vols. to date (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985-), ed. Frederick Burkhardt et al., Vol. 4, pp. 434-573.
9. Darwin, Charles Darwin's Notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, Transmutation of Species, Metaphysical Enquiries, ed. Paul H. Barrett et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987).
10. Darwin, Charles Darwin's Marginalia, Vol. 1, ed. Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of N. W. Gill (New York/London: Garland, 1990). For a recent analysis of the early notebooks, and the term "brainwork,". Note
11. Jonathan Hodge, "The Notebook Programmes and Projects of Darwin's London Years," in The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, ed. Hodge and Gregory Radick (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003), pp. 40-68.
12. For the use of Darwin's marginalia to understand the development of his thinking on social evolution. Note
13. John C. Greene, "Darwin as a Social Evolutionist," Journal of the History of Biology, 1977, 10:1-27.
14. Z Radick, "Is the Theory of Natural Selection Independent of Its History?" in Cambridge Companion to Darwin, ed. Hodge and Radick, pp. 143-167.
15. Some consideration has been given to the actual mechanics of Darwin's reading in James Secord, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chicago/London: Univ. Chicago Press, 2000) (hereafter cited as Secord, Victorian Sensation), pp. 426-433. Note
16. Darwin, Charles Darwin's Marginalia, ed. Di Gregorio and Gill, pp. 10-37.
17. Susan Sheets-Pyenson, "Darwin's Data: His Reading of Natural History Journals, 1837-1842," J. Hist. Biol., 1981, 14:231-248.
18. Francis Darwin, ed., The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Including an Autobiographical Chapter, 3 vols. (London: John Murray, 1888), Vol. 1, pp. 150, 151.
19. By contrast, Darwin typically encountered fiction and other nonscientific works aurally, read aloud by members of the family either in his bedroom during an afternoon siesta or in the drawing room during the evening (ibid., pp. 121-125). Note
20. Secord, Victorian Sensation, pp. 428-429. Graeme Gooday has exploited the analogy between the reading of instruments and of printed texts in "Spot-Watching, Bodily Postures, and the 'Practiced Eye': The Material Practice of Instrument Reading in Late Victorian Electrical Life," in Bodies/Machines, ed. Iwan Rhys Morus (Oxford/New York: Berg, 2002), pp. 165-194, on pp. 166-167. Note
21. On notions of the physical processes of reading in an earlier period. Note
22. Adrian Johns, "The Physiology of Reading in Restoration England," in Practice and Representation, ed. Raven et al. (cit. n. 1), pp. 138-161.
23. Martin Rudwick, "Charles Darwin in London: The Integration of Public and Private Science," Isis, 1982, 73:186-206, on p. 186
24. Edward Manier, The Young Darwin and His Cultural Circle [Dordrecht/ Boston: Reidel, 1978].
25. Jonathan R. Topham, "Beyond the 'Common Context': The Production and Reading of the Bridgewater Treatises," Isis, 1998, 89:233-262, esp. pp. 250-252.
26. Secord, Victorian Sensation, pp. 410-419.
27. Secord, Victorian Sensation, p. 429.
28. Aileen Fyfe, "The Reception of William Paley's Natural Theology in the University of Cambridge," British Journal for the History of Science, 1997, 30:321-335.
29. It should be noted, however, that some consideration is given to Darwin's reading, as well as to his fieldwork. Note
30. James Secord, "The Discovery of a Vocation: Darwin's Early Geology," ibid., 1991, 24:133-157.
31. Andrew Warwick, Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics (Chicago/London: Univ. Chicago Press, 2003), pp. 16, 17.
32. Andrew Warwick, Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics (Chicago/London: Univ. Chicago Press, 2003), pp. 288, 298.
33. Roger Cooter and Stephen Pumfrey, "Separate Spheres and Public Places: Reflections on the History of Science Popularization and Science in Popular Culture," History of Science, 1994, 32:237-267, on pp. 251, 252, 254-255.
34. Chartier, "Texts, Printings, Readings" (cit. n. 1), p. 169.
35. Topham, "Beyond the 'Common Context' " (cit. n. 7).
36. Cooter and Pumfrey, "Separate Spheres and Public Places" (cit. n. 11), pp. 250-251.
37. Secord, Victorian Sensation, pp. 2, 4.
38. Cooter and Pumfrey, "Separate Spheres and Public Places" (cit. n. 11), p. 255.
39. Secord, Victorian Sensation, pp. 2, 4.
40. Jonathan R. Topham, "Scientific Publishing and the Reading of Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Historiographical Survey and Guide to Sources," Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci., 2000, 31A:559-612.
41. Darnton, "First Steps toward a History of Reading" (cit. n. 1), p. 157.
42. Alvar Ellegård, Darwin and the General Reader: The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution in the British Periodical Press, 1859-1872 (Chicago/London: Univ. Chicago Press, 1990).
43. More reader-conscious approaches to the science content of nineteenth-century periodicals are explored. Note
44. Louise Henson et al., eds., Culture and Science in the Nineteenth- Century Media (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).
45. Geoffrey Cantor and Sally Shuttleworth, eds., Science Serialized: Representations of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004).
46. Geoffrey Cantor et al., Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004).
47. I currently have a project under way at the University of Leeds, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, which is designed systematically to sample the output of the British scientific, technical, and medical press between 1800 and 1850. The case for such an approach is made at greater length in Topham, "Scientific Publishing and the Reading of Science" (cit. n. 16). Note.
48. Secord, Victorian Sensation, p. 526.
49. Aileen Fyfe, "Publishing and the Classics: Paley's Natural Theology and the Nineteenth-Century Scientific Canon," Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci., 2002, 33:729-751, on p. 735.
50. Anne Secord, "Science in the Pub: Artisan Botanists in Early Nineteenth-Century Lancashire," Hist. Sci., 1994, 32:269-315, on pp. 277-278.
51. Darwin, Correspondence of Charles Darwin, ed. Burkhardt et al. (cit. n. 3), Vol. 10, pp. 578-579 (Gooseberry-Grower's Register). Note.
52. For the statistics see ibid., Vol. 7, pp. 394, 395; Vol. 8, p. 488; Vol. 11, p. 63. On Mudie's see Guinevere L. Griest, Mudie's Circulating Library and the Victorian Novel (Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles, 1970). For an example of the use of wholesalers' and retailers' records. Note
53. Jonathan R. Topham, "A Textbook Revolution," in Books and the Sciences in History, ed. Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000), pp. 317-337.
54. Secord, Victorian Sensation, pp. 111-152.
55. Jonathan R. Topham, "Periodicals and the Making of Reading Audiences for Science in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Youth's Magazine, 1828-37," in Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media, ed. Henson et al. (cit. n. 17), pp. 57-69.
56. On what we can learn from study of the periodical literature see ibid.; and Cantor et al., Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical (cit. n. 17), esp. the introduction and Ch. 3. Note
57. Secord, Victorian Sensation, p. 3.