Selling Science in the Age of Newton: Advertising and the Commoditization of Knowledge

Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth, Christopher Baxfield

Aestimatio Sources and Studies in the History of Science · 2015 · 11 citations · 0 references

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Contents: Introduction Advertisements in the Philosophical Transactions Newspapers and bipartisan advertisement Daily newspapers and advertisements as science texts Navigation and newsprint: advertising longitude schemes Advertising experiment and reputation: Newtonian lecturer as brand Science as a commodity: the 18th century and beyond Bibliography Index.