Science, time and space in the late nineteenth century periodical press : movable types /James Mussell.

"[James Mussell] provides historical accounts of scientific controversy, documents references to time and space in the periodical press and follows magazines and journals as they circulate through society to shed new light on the dissemination and distribution of periodicals, authorship and textual authority, and the role of mediation in material culture"--Dust jacket.