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Communicating physics : the production, circulation and appropriation of Ganot's textbooks in France and England, 1851-1887 / Josep Simon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simon, Josep, author.
- Series:
- Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 13.
- Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887--Influence.
- Ganot, A.
- Physics--France--History--19th century.
- Physics.
- Physics--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Physics--Study and teaching (Secondary)--France--History--19th century.
- Physics--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- France.
- Genre:
- History
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pickering & Chatto, 2011.
- Summary:
- The textbooks written by Adolphe Ganot played a major role in shaping the way physics was taught in schools. Simon''s Franco-British case study looks at the role of two of Ganot''s books. The study is novel for its international comparison of 19th-century physics and for its emphasis on the communication of science rather than on the science itself.
- Contents:
- Textbooks and the culture of physics
- Physics in the marketplace : textbooks and the making of knowledge in nineteenth-century France and England
- Ganot and Atkinson : a comparative biography of the practice of physics
- Ganot's Physique
- The international book trade and the making of sceintific knowledge
- Atkinson's Physics
- Readers and readings
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612985041
- 9780822981688
- 0822981688
- 9781317322924
- 1317322924
- 9781315655727
- 1315655721
- 9781317322931
- 1317322932
- 9781848931312
- 184893131X
- 9781282985049
- 1282985043
- OCLC:
- 707068869
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