Books and the sciences in history /
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Books and sciences before print / Rosamond McKitterick
- Printing the world / Jerry Brotton
- Geniture collections, origins and uses of a genre / Anthony Grafton
- Annotating and indexing natural philosophy / Ann Blair
- Illustrating nature / Sachiko Kusukawa
- Astronomical books and courtly communication / Adam Mosley
- Reading for the philosophers' stone / Lauren Kassell
- Writing and talking of exotic animals / Silvia De Renzi
- Compendious footnotes / Marina Frasca-Spada
- On the bureaucratic plots of the research library / William Clark
- Encyclopaedic knowledge / Richard Yeo
- Periodical literature / Thomas Broman
- Natural philosophy for fashionable readers / Mary Terrall
- Rococo readings of the book of nature / E.C. Spary
- Young readers and the sciences / Aileen Fyfe
- The physiology of reading / Adrian Johns
- A textbook revolution / Jonathan Topham
- Useful knowledge for export / Eugenia Roldán Vera
- Editing a hero of modern science / Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart
- Progress in print / James Secord
- Books, texts, and the making of knowledge / Nick Jardine
- The past, present, and future of the scientific book / Adrian Johns.