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

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: (Rima Dombrow), 1944-; Downey Gregory John.; Vaughn Stephen, 1947-; Apple Rima D.
Published: The University of Wisconsin Press,
Publisher Address: Madison
Publication Dates: c2012.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: 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.