Research Catalog

Title

Science in print : essays on the history of science and the culture of print / edited by Rima D. Apple, Gregory J. Downey, and Stephen L. Vaughn.

Publication

Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Apple, Rima D. (Rima Dombrow), 1944-
• Downey, Gregory John
• Vaughn, Stephen, 1947-

Description

xiii, 235 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Print culture history in modern America

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Print culture history in modern America

Subjects

• Communication in science > History
• Scientific literature > History
• Science publishing > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780299286149 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0299286142 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780299286132 (e-book)
• 0299286134 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2011046758

OCLC

• 761853029
• SCSB-12760893

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library