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Bernard Lightman

ResearcherHistory of Science and TechnologyYork University

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Bernard Lightman

Researcher

History of Science and Technology

York University

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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1 publication in the last five years, latest in 2022.
Principal investigator on 8 research grants (8 SSHRC), most recently in 2025.

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Research

John Tyndall Victorian science history of science evolution Darwinism science and society British science scientific correspondence

Latest papers

The Darwin Correspondence Project and Pedagogy.
Journal of the history of biology · 2022 · first author
The Mid-Victorian period and the Astronomical Register (1863-1886): 'A medium of communication for amateurs and others'.
Public understanding of science (Bristol, England) · 2018 · first author
The "History" of Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Huxley, Spencer and the "End" of natural history.
Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences · 2016 · first author

All 7 publications

Latest funding

The collected letters of John Tyndall (1820-1893), influential Victorian scientist: editing and publishing volumes 18 to 21
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$53,294
The collected letters of John Tyndall (1820-1893), influential Victorian scientist; editing and publishing volumes 15 to 21
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$247,456
The collected letters of John Tyndall (1820-1893), influential Victorian scientist; editing and publishing volumes 15 to 21
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$114,705

All 13 grants and awards

The collected letters of John Tyndall (1820-1893), influential Victorian scientist: editing and publishing volumes 18 to 21

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Lightman, Bernard V.

Keywords: scientific correspondence; John Tyndall; Victorian science; history of science; evolution; Darwinism; science and society; British science; scholarly editions of documents

$53,294

The collected letters of John Tyndall (1820-1893), influential Victorian scientist; editing and publishing volumes 15 to 21

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Lightman, Bernard V.

Keywords: scientific correspondence; John Tyndall; Victorian science; history of science; evolution; Darwinism; science and society; British science; scholarly editions of documents

$247,456

The collected letters of John Tyndall (1820-1893), influential Victorian scientist; editing and publishing volumes 15 to 21

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Lightman, Bernard V.

Keywords: scientific correspondence; John Tyndall; Victorian science; history of science; evolution; Darwinism; science and society; British science; scholarly editions of documents

$114,705

The collected letters of John Tyndall (1820-1893), influential Victorian scientist: editing and publishing volumes 5 to 14

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Lightman, Bernard V.

Keywords: correspondence; John Tyndall; Victorian science; history of science; evolution; Darwinism; science and society; British science; scholarly editions

$358,892

Cosmopolitanism and the local in science and nature: creating an east/west partnership

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: McOuat, Gordon R.

Keywords: knowledge exchange; colonial and post-colonialism; science and technology studies

$200,000

The collected letters of John Tyndall (1820-1893), influential Victorian scientist developing the editorial method and executing the first three volumes

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Lightman, Bernard V.

Keywords: correspondence; John Tyndall; Victorian science; history of science; evolution; Darwinism; science and society; British science; scholarly editions; editorial methods; annotation practices; textual editing

$199,828

Revisiting evolutionary naturalism: new perspectives on Victorian science and culture

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Lightman, Bernard V.

Keywords: cultural history of Victorian science; evolutionary naturalism; Victorian science and culture

$23,214

Circulating, exchanging and translating knowledge: colonial and post-colonial encounters

Co-investigatorSSHRC2009International Opportunities Fund

Principal investigators: McOuat, Gordon R.

Keywords: science and technology studies; postcolonialism; circulating knowledge; globalisation

$24,995

Clustering the humanist and social studies of science in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2006

Principal investigators: McOuat, Gordon R.

Keywords: trust in science; knowledge in the modern world; science and technology studies; history and philosophy of science

$2,081,000

John Tyndall: the man of science in context

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Lightman, Bernard V.

Keywords: cultural history of Victorian science; intellectual biography

$92,516

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Bernard Lightman

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The Darwin Correspondence Project and Pedagogy.

The Mid-Victorian period and the Astronomical Register (1863-1886): 'A medium of communication for amateurs and others'.

The "History" of Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Huxley, Spencer and the "End" of natural history.

Mid-Victorian science museums and exhibitions: 'the industrial amusement and instruction of the people'.

Focus: the future of the history of science: introduction.

The many lives of Charles Darwin: early biographies and the definitive evolutionist.

Darwin and the popularization of evolution.

The collected letters of John Tyndall (1820-1893), influential Victorian scientist: editing and publishing volumes 18 to 21

The collected letters of John Tyndall (1820-1893), influential Victorian scientist; editing and publishing volumes 15 to 21

The collected letters of John Tyndall (1820-1893), influential Victorian scientist; editing and publishing volumes 15 to 21

The collected letters of John Tyndall (1820-1893), influential Victorian scientist: editing and publishing volumes 5 to 14

Cosmopolitanism and the local in science and nature: creating an east/west partnership

The collected letters of John Tyndall (1820-1893), influential Victorian scientist developing the editorial method and executing the first three volumes

Revisiting evolutionary naturalism: new perspectives on Victorian science and culture

Circulating, exchanging and translating knowledge: colonial and post-colonial encounters

Clustering the humanist and social studies of science in Canada

John Tyndall: the man of science in context