Wissen, um zu leben: Popularization as Epistemic Practice in Austrian Natural Science, 1865-1916
Barr, Zachary
This dissertation examines the role of popular texts, public lectures, and other forms of non-technical communication in Austrian natural science between 1865 and 1916. Its argument is threefold. First, that a loosely affiliated group of biologists, naturalists, and physicists not only used their po