Science in Print: Essays on the History of Science and the Culture of Print
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2012
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Rima D. Apple Editor: Gregory J. Downey Editor: Stephen L. Vaughn |
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235 pp.
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University of Wisconsin Press
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Madison, WI
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| ISBN |
9780299286149
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Contents:
Creating standards of accuracy : Faithorne's The art of graveing and the Royal Society / Meghan Doherty
"Perspicuity and neatness of expression" : algebra textbooks in the early American republic / Robin E. Rider
Voyaging and the scientific expedition report, 1800-1940 / Lynn K. Nyhart
Crossing borders : the Smithsonian Institution and nineteenth-century diffusion of scientific information between the United States and Canada / Bertrum H. MacDonald
Writing medicine : George M. Gould and medical print culture in progressive America / Jennifer J. Connor
Evolution in children's science books, 1882-1922 / Kate McDowell
"Through books to nature" : texts and objects in nature study curricula / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
Basic seven, basic four, Mary Mutton, and a pyramid : the ideology of meat in print culture / Rima D. Apple
What two books can (and cannot) do : Stewart Udall's The quiet crisis and its twenty-fifth anniversary edition / Cheryl Knott
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