@book{8861,
  author = {Brian C. Vickery},
  title = {Scientific Communication in History},
  year = {2000},
  pages = {255 pp.},
  publisher = {Scarecrow Press},
  address = {Lanham, MD},
  note = {Contents:
Introduction: Science in History 
The Earlier Civilizations (to about 600 B.C.) 
The Rise of Civilization 
Mesopotamian Culture 
Egypt, Persia and Phoenicia 
Classical Culture (600 B.C. to A.D. 500) 
The Emergence of Greece
Education, the Academy and the Lyceum 
Collections of Documents
Alexandria and Pergamum 
The Roman World 
Books and Libraries
Encyclopedists 
The End of the Western Empire 
The Medieval Period (500-1450) 
Transmission of Classical Knowledge  
The Eastern Empire 
Transmission into Arabic 
Centers of Arab Scholarship 
The Barbarian West 
Christianity and Classical Culture 
Craft Knowledge  
Contacts with the Arabs 
Sicily 
Spain 
Transmission into Latin Completed 
Encyclopedists and Commentators 
Medieval Universities 
Books and Libraries 
Development of European Languages
Humanism 
Literacy and Book Production 
Origin and Spread of Printing
Fifteenth-Century Books 
The Scientific Revolution (1450-1700) 
The Renaissance 
The Intelligencers 
The First Scientific Academies 
The Royal Society 
European Academies 
The Development of Journals 
The Progress of Libraries 
Europe and the World 
The Eighteenth Century
The Burgeoning of Societies 
Museums of Natural History 
Specialized Journals 
The Progress of Bibliography 
Technical Terminology 
The Language of Botany 
The Linnean System 
Knowledge of Substances 
The Chemical Revolution 
Early Science in North America.},
  language = {English},
}