Science in print : essays on the history of science and the culture of print / edited by Rima D. Apple, Gregory J. Downey, and Stephen L. Vaughn.

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[2012], ©2012
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Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2012], ©2012.

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xiii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • 9780299286149
  • 0299286142
  • 9780299286132
  • 0299286134