Making Nature the history of a scientific journal

Making "Nature" is the first book to chronicle the foundation and development of Nature, one of the world's most influential scientific institutions. Now nearing its hundred and fiftieth year of publication, Nature is the international benchmark for scientific publication. Its contrib...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baldwin, Melinda Clare, 1981-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press, 2015.
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Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • Nature's shifting audience : 1869-1875
  • Nature's contributors and the changing of Britain's scientific guard : 1872-1895
  • Defining the "man of science" in Nature
  • Scientific internationalism and scientific nationalism
  • Nature, interwar politics, and intellectual freedom
  • "It almost came out on its own" : Nature under L.J.F. Brimble and A.J.V. Gale
  • Nature, the Cold War, and the rise of the United States
  • "Disorderly publication" : Nature and scientific self-policing in the 1980s.