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Bernard Lightman: Works, Science, Technology & Cultures

Bernard Vise Lightman, FRSC (born April 30, 1950) is a Canadian historian of science, and professor of humanities and science and technology studies at York University, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He specializes in the relationship between Victorian era science and religious unbelief, the role of women in science, and the popularization of science.

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Bernard Lightman topic overview

The analysis highlights Works, Science, Technology and Cultures as prominent areas in the source structure around Bernard Lightman.

Related topics: 25
Source areas: 3
Connected nodes: 28
Extracted relationships: 87
Concept neighborhoods: 21
Bridge connections: 28

What this topic covers Research coverage

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Overview · 12 topics

Life and works · 11 topics

Selected works · 2 topics

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Key facts & relationships

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Known for: The John Tyndall Correspondence Project, Isis (journal), President of the History of Science Society (2018–2019)
Alma mater: Brandeis University
Born: (1950-04-30) April 30, 1950 (age 76) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Fields: Intellectual history · History of Victorian society · History of science
Workplaces: York University

Suggested research paths

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Life and works

Agnosticism Atheism Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences Editor-in-chief Henry Longueville Mansel

Selected works

Aileen Fyfe ISBN

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Overview

FRSC Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Historian of science
Science and technology studies
York University
Toronto, Ontario
Victorian era
Popularization of science
Isis Isis (journal)
John Tyndall
Royal Society of Canada
International Academy of the History of Science
History of Science Society

Life and works

Selected works

ISBN ISBN (identifier)
Aileen Fyfe

Advanced semantic analysis

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How Bernard Lightman connects Entity context

The extracted context around Bernard Lightman shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Bernard Lightman → Agnosticism, Aileen Fyfe, Ann Shteir, August, Available, Bernard Zelechow, Change, Chicago Press, Co-edited, Companion, Context, Continuity, Crisis, Culture, Dartmouth College Press, Darwinians, Designing Nature, Ed, Efram Sera-Shriar, Essays Another extracted example is Bernard Lightman → History of science, History of Victorian society, Intellectual history. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Bernard Lightman

Top relations

related to Selected works · 78

Bernard Lightman → Agnosticism, Aileen Fyfe, Ann Shteir, August, Available, Bernard Zelechow, Change, Chicago Press, Co-edited, Companion, Context, Continuity, Crisis, Culture, Dartmouth College Press, Darwinians, Designing Nature, Ed, Efram Sera-Shriar, Essays

Fields · 3

Bernard Lightman → History of science, History of Victorian society, Intellectual history

related to External links · 2

Bernard Lightman → Bernard LightmanNew, John Tyndall

Alma mater · 1

Bernard Lightman → Brandeis University

Born · 1

Bernard Lightman → (1950-04-30) April 30, 1950 (age 76) Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Known for · 1

Bernard Lightman → The John Tyndall Correspondence Project, Isis (journal), President of the History of Science Society (2018–2019)

Workplaces · 1

Bernard Lightman → York University

Important terminology

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Important terminology

science lightman university isbn victorian press john society tyndall history co-edited isis culture canada york correspondence project agnosticism nineteenth century

Bernard Lightman relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 87 structured relationships around Bernard Lightman. Examples in this analysis include Bernard Lightman → Alma mater → Brandeis University and Bernard Lightman → Born → (1950-04-30) April 30, 1950 (age 76) Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Bernard Lightman	Alma mater	Brandeis University	1.00	infobox
Bernard Lightman	Born	(1950-04-30) April 30, 1950 (age 76) Toronto, Ontario, Canada	1.00	infobox
Bernard Lightman	Fields	Intellectual history	1.00	infobox
Bernard Lightman	Fields	History of Victorian society	1.00	infobox
Bernard Lightman	Fields	History of science	1.00	infobox
Bernard Lightman	Known for	The John Tyndall Correspondence Project, Isis (journal), President of the History of Science Society (2018–2019)	1.00	infobox
Bernard Lightman	Workplaces	York University	1.00	infobox
Bernard Lightman	related to External links	Bernard LightmanNew	0.60	section
Bernard Lightman	related to External links	John Tyndall	0.60	section
Bernard Lightman	related to Selected works	Victorian Interdisciplinarity	0.60	section
Bernard Lightman	related to Selected works	Sciences	0.60	section
Bernard Lightman	related to Selected works	Rethinking	0.60	section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Bernard Lightman bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Humanities, Canada and York. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

Bernard Lightman
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- History
- Journal
- President
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- Lightman
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- Toronto
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- Correspondence
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- Project
- History
- Journal
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- Century
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science and technology studies
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popularization of science
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Bernard Lightman, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Bernard Lightman with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

Bernard Lightman — Overview · splits 16 ⟂ 13

Bernard Lightman — Life and works · splits 17 ⟂ 12

Bernard Lightman — Selected works · splits 26 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Bernard Lightman

Nodes29

Edges28

Triples87

Avg. degree1.93

Density0.068966

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Bernard Lightman to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works, Science, Technology & Cultures, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Bernard Lightman · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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