Science in Victorian Manchester: Enterprise and Expertise

by Robert Kargon (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $55.57

  Manchester was Victorian Britain's leading industrial city. In order to describe and analyze the transformation of science in the eighteenth century, this book examines Manchester through successive stages. In so doing, it traces the evolution of science from an activity pursued by gentlemen-amateurs to a highly specialized profession.