HIST 3690 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Blackboard, British Science Association, Mary Anning
20 Apr 2016
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Promoted science as an exclusive activity for the upper class men with education and money. Members of the baas were well-off, worked at home, and have gentlemanly characteristics. Intellectual class system women were at the bottom of the scientific pile while men ranked higher. Failed to acknowledge the behind the scenes" efforts of those without a high ranking status. Render invisible other contributors i. e. technical assistants, less-educated men who built scientific tools/machinery, laboratory organizers, women who edited scientific treatises and papers, women who collected and manufactured imagery. Diffusionist model the passive presentation for scientific work that was used by popularizers could diffuse a simplified version that was easy to comprehend; set a precedent. Assumed homogeneity; passivity assumes that real science" is for the elite while the simplified is for the masses; assumes that the elite are exclusively eligible for this knowledge. Popular culture had more agency in developing science within victorian culture.
