Making nature : the history of a scientific journal / Melinda Baldwin.
Pubblicazione:
Chicago : The University of Chicago press, c2015.
Descrizione fisica:
309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Citations and abbreviations. A note to the reader. Introduction: Who is a scientist? 1. Nature's shifting audience (1869-1875) 2. Nature's contributors and the changing of Britain's scientific guard (1872-1895) 3. Defining the man of science in Nature 4. Scientific internationalism and scientific nationalism 5. Nature, interwar politics and intellectual freedom 6. It almost came out on its own: Nature under L.J.F. Brimble and A.J.V. Gale 7. Nature, the cold war and the rise of the United States 8. Disordely publication: Nature and scientific self-policing in the 1980s. Conclusion. Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index
