Britain-science for all by Peter J. Bowler
Historians such as Bernard Lightman, James Secord, and Aileen Fyfe have shown us how the development of Victorian science was shaped by the interaction between working scientists and the general public. Darwinians such as T. H. Huxley openly competed with the advocates of natural theology for the attention of the reading public. Lectures, entertainments, and exhibitions played a role in shaping the careers of many scientists and would-be scientists. Yet we know surprisingly little about the situation after 1900, apart from the influence of a few bestselling scientist-authors such as Arthur Eddington and Julian Huxley, and the efforts of left-wing scientists to raise public awareness of how science was being exploited. We do know something about the development of popular science writing in early twentieth-century America and in some continental European countries. But for Britain we have only a few case studies by Peter Broks, Anna-K. Mayer, and Sophie Forgan. A broader study will allow us to address important issues about how the relationship between scientists and the public has changed between the Victorian era and the present. The early twentieth century was a period in which there were major developments within both the publishing industry and the scientific community.
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