Science in print:essays on the history of science and the culture of print
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The University of Wisconsin Press,
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Publisher Address: | Madison |
Publication Dates: | c2012. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Print culture history in modern America |
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Carrier Form: | xiii, 235 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780299286149 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0299286142 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780299286132 (e-book) 0299286134 (e-book) |
Index Number: | G3 |
CLC: | G3-09 |
Call Number: | G3-09/S416 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. |