Books and the Sciences in History
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 2 November 2000
- ISBN 9780521659390
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages456 pages
- Size 248x176x24 mm
- Weight 720 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 89 b/w illus. 60
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Short description:
This book, published in 2000, examines the intersection between science and books from early medieval times to the nineteenth century.
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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.
'This book is a most welcome addition to the literature on books and the history of science. It contains a wealth of fascinating detail about the composition, production, and distribution of scientific books, their readership, and the complex relationships which existed between the producers and consumers of books... this collection provides an excellent introduction to the subject, firmly establishing the importance of book history for the history of science, and setting the agenda for what should be a promising period of interaction between these complementary historical endeavours.' Metascience
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 Rold...n 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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