Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 20, No. 33

VariousProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 2.7
Word count
477K words
Chapters
48

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Literature Popular ScienceEnglish Originals Human GeographyScience EnlightenmentCuriositySlow ReadingMagazine SelectionPopular NarrativeEclectic ReadingExotic CultureFolk CustomsVictorian Era

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 20, No. 33,Author: Various,Language: English, Class: AP: General Works: Periodicals, Release Date: Nov 17, 2012

Editor's review

This is Volume 20, No. 33 of Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, a single issue of a nineteenth-century American general-interest periodical. The magazine published both popular literature and science writing, with sections covering fiction, essays, reviews, and scientific news, reflecting the reading habits of an era that placed literary taste and scientific progress side by side. Its value as a historical document lies not in any single famous piece but in the picture it gives of public reading in its time: how scientific topics were made accessible, how literary taste intertwined with technological advance, and how advertising and editorial conventions shaped readers. For those studying nineteenth-century Anglo-American periodical history, popular science communication, or Victorian reading culture, such single issues are rare primary sources. There is no need to read every page; browse by section and note the differences in style from today's science writing.

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  1. Start with the table of contents and read one literary and one scientific article for comparison.
  2. Browse by section; note unfamiliar allusions or names and look them up together afterward.
  3. Compare the magazine's science articles with today's popular science writing to observe changes in expression.
  4. If researching, excerpt editorial conventions and advertising language as source notes.

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FAQ

What does this issue mainly contain? As a single issue of a general-interest periodical, it typically includes fiction, essays, reviews, and popular science articles, possibly with editorial columns and advertisements. The exact contents depend on the electronic text. Its distinguishing feature is the juxtaposition of literature and science, reflecting how nineteenth-century readers combined entertainment and learning.
Is it suitable for reading from cover to cover? Not really. A single magazine issue is miscellaneous in its sections and varied in style, better suited to selective reading. Start with the table of contents, choose one literary and one scientific piece to compare, then turn to reviews or advertisements as needed; this better conveys the issue's editorial logic.
What should be noted when using it as a historical source? Remember that it is a single-issue sample of a particular periodical from a particular era and cannot represent the whole magazine or the whole age. When citing, give the volume and issue and publication details, distinguish article text, editorial notes, and advertisements, and note differences between the scientific views of the time and today's consensus.

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About the author

Various Author

Various is not a real person but a collective attribution used in book cataloging and databases for works with multiple authors, commonly applied to anthologies, compilations, or publications with too many contributors to list individually. On this Chinese book site, this attribution covers as many as 3,387 titles, spanning encyclopedic entries, historical documents, and trial records. Representative works include several volumes of the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the record of the trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Available public information is limited: nationality, birth and death dates, and common categories are not clearly recorded, making it difficult to summarize a unified writing style or personal biography. Readers should understand it as a cataloging convention rather than a single author.