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