Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books, Libraries, and Collectors: A Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in Relation to the History of Science

Contents: Scientific book as a cultural and bibliographical object / Henry E. Lowood and Robin E. Rider Ancient science / Liba Taub Transitions 1: scientific writing in the Latin Middle Ages / S. Livesey Transitions 2: Islamic science / J. Sesiano Incunables and sixteenth-century books / Sachiko Kusukawa Words of nature: scientific books in the seventeenth century / Tara Nummedal and Paula Findlen Eighteenth-century scientific publishing / Brian J. Ford Books on the natural sciences in the nineteenth-century / Frank A.J.L. James Science publishing in the twentieth century / A.J. Meadows Scientific bibliographies and bibliographers, and the history of the History of Science / W.H. Brock Scientific books and their owners: a survey to c.1720 / Giles Mandelbrote Scientific book collectors and collections, public and private, 1720 to date / Judith Overmier.