Science in Wonderland
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2015 · Education
Melanie Keene, author of Science in Wonderland introduces the ‘scientific fairy tales written for children in Victorian Britain. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199662654.do Melanie Keene is a historian of science for children, based at Homerton College, Cambridge. She has published several academic and popular articles on scientific books and objects from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, on topics from candles, pebbles, or cups of tea, to board games, toy sets, and model dinosaurs. © Oxford University Press
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