James A. Secord, Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 306. ISBN 978-0-19-967526-5. £18.99 [Book Review]

British Journal for the History of Science 48 (2):368-370 (2015)
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