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Science 28 March 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5871, p. 1764
DOI: 10.1126/science.1156188

Books

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Explaining the Cosmos to the People

Philip J. Pauly


Victorian Popularizers of Science
Designing Nature for New Audiences
by Bernard Lightman
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007. 563 pp. $45, £23.50. ISBN 9780226481180.
The author provides a scholarly, detailed consideration of the bloom of books by writers and journalists who presented science to the British public through the second half of the 19th century
The reviewer is at the Department of History, Rutgers University, 16 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1108, USA. E-mail: pauly{at}rci.rutgers.edu

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