A Hardbound Information Revolution

摘要

James Secord's previous book, Victorian Sensation (1), has become highly influential due to its pioneering integration of scholarship in the field of print culture with the history of Victorian science. In that book, Secord (a historian of science at the University of Cambridge) explored the communications revolution that took place in Britain during the second quarter of the 19th century, spurred on by new developments in print technology, which led to a vastly increased reading public. He argued that the resulting changes in both the reading and publishing of science had a profound effect on the very nature of science.