The SciPer Project of the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield is delighted to announce the publication of the third and final instalment of Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, which is published by hriOnline and is freely available at http://www.sciper.org <http://www.sciper.org/> .

 

The SciPer Index provides a scholarly synopsis of the material relating to science, technology, and medicine appearing in sixteen general periodicals published in Britain between 1800 and 1900. With entries describing over 14,000 articles and references to more than 6000 individuals and 2500 publications, it provides an invaluable research tool for those interested in the representation of science and in the interpenetration of science and literature in nineteenth-century Britain, as well as for students of the period more generally.  The new journals indexed in this final release include selected years from the Belle Assemblée (1806), Black Dwarf (1817), Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1817-18), Christian Observer (1802), Edinburgh Review (1802-03), Mirror of Literature (1822-28), Wesleyan Methodist Magazine (1822-26), and Youth's Magazine (1828-37).

 

'... a remarkably rich (and free) resource for 19th-century historians. The SciPer index ... will change the way we understand how science was assimilated, debated and challenged in the 19th century'.

Prof. Rebecca Stott, Times Higher Education Supplement.

 

'Researchers can not only locate reports of Michael Faraday's lectures, or reviews of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, but also uncover references to their favourite scientific topics buried deep within short stories, satirical poems, travelogues and articles on other unrelated areas ... There is no doubt that the electronic index will be very helpful ...'

Aileen Fyfe, Nature.

 

The electronic index complements the three books published by the SciPer team:

 

Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature, by Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, and Jonathan R. Topham (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

 

Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media, ed. by Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, and Jonathan R. Topham  (Ashgate, 2004).

 

Science Serialized: Representations of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals, ed. by Geoffrey Cantor and Sally Shuttleworth (MIT Press, 2004).

 

For further details of the SciPer Project, see http://www.sciper.org <http://www.sciper.org/> .

 

 

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Dr. Jon Topham

Senior Lecturer in History of Science

 

Division of History and Philosophy of Science

School of Philosophy 

University of Leeds

Leeds LS2 9JT

 

Tel: +44 (0)113 343 2526

Fax: +44 (0)113 343 3265

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