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Science in Print: Essays on the History of Science and the Culture of Print (Print Culture History in Modern America)
Downey & Vaug Apple
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Description for Science in Print: Essays on the History of Science and the Culture of Print (Print Culture History in Modern America)
Paperback. This ambitious volume paints a rich picture of the tools and techniques of printing, publishing, and reading that shaped the ideas and practices that grew into modern science, from the days of the Royal Society of London in the late 1600s to the beginning of the modern US environmental movement in the early 1960s. Editor(s): Apple, Rima; Downey, Gregory; Vaughn, Stephen. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: CBW; MFCH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
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 of today as 'science.' But just as the history of science involves more than recording discoveries, so too does the study of print culture extend beyond the mere cataloguing of books. In both disciplines, researchers attempt to comprehend how social structures of power, reputation, and meaning permeate both the written record and the intellectual scaffolding through which scientific debate ... Read more
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 of today as 'science.' But just as the history of science involves more than recording discoveries, so too does the study of print culture extend beyond the mere cataloguing of books. In both disciplines, researchers attempt to comprehend how social structures of power, reputation, and meaning permeate both the written record and the intellectual scaffolding through which scientific debate ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299286149
SKU
V9780299286149
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