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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Apple, Rima D. (Rima Dombrow), 1944-

Downey, Gregory John.

Vaughn, Stephen, 1947-

Series:

Print culture history in modern America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science publishing--History.

Science publishing.

Scientific literature--History.

Scientific literature.

Communication in science--History.

Communication in science.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2012]

Summary:

A Wide-Ranging Exploration of the Historical Relationship Between Print Culture and the Production of Scientific Knowledge

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 takes place.

Science in Print brings together scholars from the fields of print culture, environmental history, science and technology studies, medical history, and library and information studies. This ambitious volume paints a rich picture of those 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 U.S. environmental movement in the early 1960s. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Natural Philosophy and Mathematics in Print

Creating Standards of Accuracy: Faithorne's The Art of Graveing and the Royal Society / Meghan Doherty Doherty, Meghan 15

"Perspicuity and Neatness of Expression": Algebra Textbooks in the Early American Republic / Robin E. Rider Rider, Robin E. 37

Part 2 The Circulation of Scientific Knowledge in Print

Voyaging and the Scientific Expedition Report, 1800-1940 / Lynn K. Nyhart Nyhart, Lynn K. 65

Crossing Borders: The Smithsonian Institution and Nineteenth-Century Diffusion of Scientific Information between the United States and Canada / Bertrum H. Macdonald Macdonald, Bertrum H. 87

Writing Medicine: George M. Gould and Medical Print Culture in Progressive America / Jennifer J. Connor Connor, Jennifer J. 107

Part 3 Science Education and Health Activism in Print

Evolution in Children's Science Books, 1882-1922 / Kate Mcdowell Mcdowell, Kate 133

"Through Books to Nature": Texts and Objects in Nature Study Curricula / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory 156

Basic Seven, Basic Four, Mary Mutton, and a Pyramid: The Ideology of Meat in Print Culture / Rima D. Apple Apple, Rima D. 180

What Two Books Can (and Cannot) Do: Stewart Udall's The Quiet Crisis and Its Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition / Cheryl Knott Knott, Cheryl 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780299286149

0299286142

OCLC:

761853029