Perspective: Constructing scientific communities: Citizen science in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries

Journal of Victorian Culture

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 246-254

  Dawson, Gowan ^a   Lintott, Chris ^b   Shuttleworth, Sally ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

amateur naturalism; citizen science; Darwin; nineteenth century science; periodicals; popular science; professionalization; rational recreation; Zooniverse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928762710     PISSN: 13555502     EISSN: 17500133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13555502.2015.1022053     Document Type: Review

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