Books and the sciences in history
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Books and the sciences in history
Cambridge University Press, 2000
- : cloth
- : pbk
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University of Tsukuba Library, Library on Library and Information Science
: pbk.020.23:F-45001009130
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The history of the sciences and the history of the book are complementary, and there has been much recent innovative research in the intersection of these lively fields. This accessibly-written, well-illustrated volume, published in 2000, was the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship. The twenty specially-commissioned chapters, by an international cast of distinguished scholars, cover the period from the Carolingian renaissance of learning to the mid nineteenth-century consolidation of science. They examine all aspects of the authorship, production, distribution, and reception of manuscripts, books and journals in the various sciences. An editorial introduction surveys the many profitable interactions of the history of the sciences with the history of books. Two afterwords highlight the relevances of this wide-ranging survey to the study of the development of scientific disciplines and to the predicaments of scientific communication in the electronic age.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: books and sciences Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine
- Part I. Triumphs of the Book: 1. Books and sciences before print Rosamond McKitterick
- 2. Printing the world Jerry Brotton
- 3. Geniture collections, origins and uses of a genre Anthony Grafton
- 4. Annotating and indexing natural philosophy Ann Blair
- 5. Illustrating nature Sachiko Kusukawa
- 6. Astronomical books and courtly communication Adam Mosley
- 7. Reading for the philosophers' stone Lauren Kassell
- 8. Writing and talking of exotic animals Silvia De Renzi
- Part II. Learned and Conversable Reading: 9. Compendious footnotes Marina Frasca-Spada
- 10. On the bureaucratic plots of the research library William Clark
- 11. Encyclopaedic knowledge Richard Yeo
- 12. Periodical literature Thomas Broman
- 13. Natural philosophy for fashionable readers Mary Terrall
- 14. Rococo readings of the book of nature Emma Spary
- 15. Young readers and the sciences Aileen Fyfe
- 16. The physiology of reading Adrian Johns
- Part III. Publication in the Age of Science: 17. A textbook revolution Jonathan Topham
- 18. Useful knowledge for export Eugenia Roldan Vera
- 19. Editing a hero of modern science Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart
- 20. Progress in print James Secord
- Afterwords: Books, texts, and the making of knowledge Nick Jardine
- The past, present, and future of the scientific book Adrian Johns
- Notes on contributors.
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