Communication and community: moving scientific knowledge in Britain and America, 1732-1782

This dissertation explores the dissemination of knowledge, letter-writing, print culture, institutionalization of knowledge, and identity. In this work, the scientific knowledge itself plays a secondary role to how that knowledge was communicated within the scientific community and to the general pu...

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Main Author: Sivitz, Paul Andrew
Language:en
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2012/sivitz/SivitzP0812.pdf