ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the uses of scientific terminology in the comic periodical Punch. It contextualizes this project by examining recent trends in the study of science and periodicals. The scholarship that emerged from the project has made a significant contribution to the understanding of several key issues relating to science and periodicals. Digital resources such as these have transformed the study of periodicals, making primary sources more accessible and the process of research more efficient. The study of nineteenth-century periodicals shows that science, rather than being straightforwardly transmitted in a popular form, was remade and transformed by different types of publications and for different audiences. Research on science and periodicals yields its fullest results when it uses both digital resources and printed periodicals to examine the connections that emerge through a reading of periodicals as material objects and as integrated texts.
