Science in Print:: Essays on the History of Science and the Culture of Print Tapa blanda - 2012 - 1st Edición

Paperback / softback. New. This ambitious volume paints a rich picture of the 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 US environmental movement in the early 1960s.

Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 2012. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 235 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches.

Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. Fine. 2012. First Edition. Paperback. 0299286142 . A wide-ranging exploration of the historical relationship between print culture and the production of scientific knowledgeEver 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… Leer más