Acknowledgments
Contributors
1. Science in the Marketplace: An Introduction
Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman
Section I: Orality
2. How Scientific Conversation Became Shop Talk
James A. Secord
3. The Diffusion of Phrenology through Public Lecturing
John van Wyhe
4. Lecturing in the Spatial Economy of Science
Bernard Lightman
Section II: Print
5. Publishing “Popular Science” in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
Jonathan R. Topham
6. Sensitive, Bashful, and Chaste? Articulating the Mimosa in Science
Ann B. Shteir
7. Reading Natural History at the British Museum and the Pictorial Museum
Aileen Fyfe
8. Illuminating the Expert-Consumer Relationship in Domestic Electricity
Graeme Gooday
Section III: Display
9. Natural History on Display: The Collection of Charles Waterton
Victoria Carroll
10. Science at the Crystal Focus of the World
Richard Bellon
11. “More the Aspect of Magic than Anything Natural”: The Philosophy of Demonstration
Iwan Rhys Morus
12. The Museum Affect: Visiting Collections of Anatomy and Natural History
Samuel J. M. M. Alberti
Index