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History of Science Secondary Sources by Topic

Guide to Secondary Sources (by Topic) in the history of science, technology & medicine

Overviews & Introductory Works

Public understanding of science : a history of communicating scientific ideas by David Knight
Publication Date: 2006
Science in public: communication, culture, and credibility by Jane Gregory; Steve Miller; Steven Miller
Publication Date: 2000
Understanding Popular Science (Online access) by Peter Broks
Publication Date: 2006

Image of the Scientist

From Faust to Strangelove : representations of the scientist in western literature by Roslynn D. Haynes
Publication Date: 1994
Master mechanics & wicked wizards : images of the American scientist as hero and villain from colonial times to the present by Glen Scott Allen
Publication Date: 2009

Select Studies

Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences by Peter Weingart (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007

Citizen Science

America

Science talk : changing notions of science in American popular culture by Daniel Patrick Thurs
Publication Date: 2007
Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film by Gregg Mitman
Publication Date: 1999

Early Modern Era through Enlightenment

Popular science and public opinion in eighteenth-century France by Michael Lynn
Publication Date: 2006
The rise of public science : rhetoric, technology, and natural philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750 by Larry R. Stewart
Publication Date: 1992
Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment by Christine Blondel; Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008
Science as public culture: chemistry and enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820 by Jan Golinski
Publication Date: 1992
Science Culture and Popular Belief by Stephen Pumfrey; Paolo L. Rossi; Maurice Slawinski
Publication Date: 1994, c1991
Science for a polite society : gender, culture, and the demonstration of enlightenment by Geoffrey V. Sutton
Publication Date: 1997

Victorian Period

The earth on show : fossils and the poetics of popular science, 1802-1856 by Ralph O'Connor
Publication Date: 2007
Public science and public policy in Victorian England by Roy M. MacLeod
Publication Date: 1996
Victorian popularizers of science : designing nature for new audiences by Bernard Lightman
Publication Date: 2010

Atomic Age

The first atomic age : scientists, radiations, and the American public, 1895-1945 (Online access) by Matthew Lavine
Publication Date: 2013
Nuclear fear : a history of images by Spencer R. Weart
Publication Date: 1988

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