Staging Science: Scientific Performance on Street, Stage and Screen

by Martin Willis (editor)

List of illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.-  Imaginative Mobilities; Martin Willis.- 1. Making the Most Beautiful Reconstructing Gassiot's Cascade; Iwan Rhys Morus.- 2. Science in the Scientific Display and Urban Performance in Victorian Travel Guides to London; Martin Willis.- 3. Of Hats and Scientific Laughter; Tiffany Watt Smith.- 4. 'You can't make a film about mice just by going out into a meadow and looking at Mice': Staging as Knowledge Production in Natural History Film-making; Jean-Baptiste Gouyon.- 5. 'Unmediated' Science Seeing What Sticks; Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.- Afterword; Bernard Lightman.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-

154 pages, Paperback

Published January 18, 2017