Scientific communication in history / Brian C. Vickery.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Vickery, B. C. (Brian Campbell)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Communication in science--History.
• Communication in science.
• History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 255 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2000.

Summary:

The Funding Game presents various examples of library advocacy and cites a variety of community inputs, so that library administrators, board members, and Friends, will have better insight into possibilities for their own library's funding advantage.

Contents:

• Introduction: Science in History xvii
• Section 1. The Earlier Civilizations (to about 600 B.C.)
• The Rise of Civilization 1
• Mesopotamian Culture 2
• Egypt, Persia and Phoenicia 4
• Section 2. Classical Culture (600 B.C. to A.D. 500)
• The Emergence of Greece 7
• Education, the Academy and the Lyceum 9
• Collections of Documents 11
• Alexandria and Pergamum 13
• The Roman World 16
• Books and Libraries 17
• Encyclopedists 18
• The End of the Western Empire 19
• Section 3. The Medieval Period (500-1450)
• Transmission of Classical Knowledge 21
• The Eastern Empire 24
• Transmission into Arabic 26
• Centers of Arab Scholarship 28
• The Barbarian West 30
• Christianity and Classical Culture 32
• Craft Knowledge 35
• Contacts with the Arabs 37
• Sicily 39
• Spain 41
• Transmission into Latin Completed 42
• Encyclopedists and Commentators 44
• Medieval Universities 46
• Books and Libraries 49
• Development of European Languages 51
• Humanism 55
• Literacy and Book Production 57
• Origin and Spread of Printing 58
• Fifteenth-Century Books 63
• Section 4. The Scientific Revolution (1450-1700)
• The Renaissance 67
• The Intelligencers 69
• The First Scientific Academies 72
• The Royal Society 75
• European Academies 76
• The Development of Journals 77
• The Progress of Libraries 81
• Europe and the World 84
• Section 5. The Eighteenth Century
• The Eighteenth Century 89
• The Burgeoning of Societies 90
• Museums of Natural History 93
• Specialized Journals 94
• The Progress of Bibliography 96
• Technical Terminology 99
• The Language of Botany 102
• The Linnean System 105
• Knowledge of Substances 106
• The Chemical Revolution 108
• Early Science in North America 109
• Section 6. The Nineteenth Century
• The Development of Industry 113
• Transfer of Technology 117
• The Organization of Science 119
• New Directions in Bibliography 121
• Section 7. The Twentieth Century
• The Environment of Twentieth-Century Science 125
• Uneven Development of Industrialization 131
• Science outside Europe 135
• Languages of Science 141
• Internationalism in Science 143
• Developments in Scientific Publication 147
• Libraries and Information Centers 154
• Computers for Processing Information 156
• Databases as Sources of Information 159
• Scientific and Technical Data 167
• Studies of Communication in Science and Technology 170
• The Current Science-Information System 178
• Section 8. Retrospect and Reflections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.

ISBN:

0810835983

OCLC:

42882851