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20 - Publics and practices

from III - Publics and empires

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2018

By
Lynn K. Nyhart
Edited by
Helen Anne Curry ,
Nicholas Jardine ,
James Andrew Secord  and
Emma C. Spary
Helen Anne Curry
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Nicholas Jardine
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
James Andrew Secord
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Emma C. Spary
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Worlds of Natural History , pp. 335 - 347
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Brunner, B., The Ocean at Home: An Illustrated History of the Aquarium (Princeton, 2005).Google Scholar
Daum, A. W., ‘Science, politics, and religion: Humboldtian thinking and the transformations of civil society in Germany, 1830‒1870’, Osiris, 17 (2002), pp. 107‒40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Daum, A. W., ‘Varieties of popular science and the transformations of public knowledge: some historical reflections’, Isis, 100 (2009), 319‒32.Google Scholar
Kisling, V. N. Jr (ed.), Zoo and Aquarium History: Ancient Animal Collections to Zoological Gardens (New York, 2001).Google Scholar
Nyhart, L. K., Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany (Chicago, 2009).Google Scholar
Phillips, D., Acolytes of Nature: Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770‒1850 (Chicago, 2012).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rader, K. A. and Cain, V. E. M., Life on Display: Revolutionising US Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century (Chicago, 2014).Google Scholar

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