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Science in print : essays on the history of science and the culture of print /

"Ever since the threads of seventeenth-century natural philosophy began to coalesce into an understanding of the natural world, printed artifacts such as laboratory notebooks, research journals, college textbooks, and popular paperbacks have been instrumental to the development of what we think...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Vaughn, Stephen, 1947-, Downey, Gregory John, Apple, Rima D. (Rima Dombrow), 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, ©2012.
Colección:Print culture history in modern America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Creating standards of accuracy : Faithorne's The art of graveing and the Royal Society / Meghan Doherty
  • "Perspicuity and neatness of expression" : algebra textbooks in the early American republic / Robin E. Rider
  • Voyaging and the scientific expedition report, 1800-1940 / Lynn K. Nyhart
  • Crossing borders : the Smithsonian Institution and nineteenth-century diffusion of scientific information between the United States and Canada / Bertrum H. MacDonald
  • Writing medicine : George M. Gould and medical print culture in progressive America / Jennifer J. Connor
  • Evolution in children's science books, 1882-1922 / Kate McDowell
  • "Through books to nature" : texts and objects in nature study curricula / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
  • Basic seven, basic four, Mary Mutton, and a pyramid : the ideology of meat in print culture / Rima D. Apple
  • What two books can (and cannot) do : Stewart Udall's The quiet crisis and its twenty-fifth anniversary edition / Cheryl Knott.