Science and Salvation : Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain.
Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society's autho...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press,
2011
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society's authors employed a full repertoire of evangelical techniques--low prices, simple language, carefully structured narratives--to convert their readers. The application of such techniques to popular science resulted in one of the most widely available sources of information on the sciences in the Victorian era. A f. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (343 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780226276465 0226276465 1283150735 9781283150736 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
