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Examines the intersection between science and books from early medieval times to the nineteenth century.
List of contents
Acknowledgments; Introduction: books and sciences Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine; Part I. Triumphs of the Book: 1. Books and sciences before print Rosamond McKitterick; 2. Printing the world Jerry Brotton; 3. Geniture collections, origins and uses of a genre Anthony Grafton; 4. Annotating and indexing natural philosophy Ann Blair; 5. Illustrating nature Sachiko Kusukawa; 6. Astronomical books and courtly communication Adam Mosley; 7. Reading for the philosophers' stone Lauren Kassell; 8. Writing and talking of exotic animals Silvia De Renzi; Part II. Learned and Conversable Reading: 9. Compendious footnotes Marina Frasca-Spada; 10. On the bureaucratic plots of the research library William Clark; 11. Encyclopaedic knowledge Richard Yeo; 12. Periodical literature Thomas Broman; 13. Natural philosophy for fashionable readers Mary Terrall; 14. Rococo readings of the book of nature Emma Spary; 15. Young readers and the sciences Aileen Fyfe; 16. The physiology of reading Adrian Johns; Part III. Publication in the Age of Science: 17. A textbook revolution Jonathan Topham; 18. Useful knowledge for export Eugenia Roldàn Vera; 19. Editing a hero of modern science Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart; 20. Progress in print James Secord; Afterwords: Books, texts, and the making of knowledge Nick Jardine; The past, present, and future of the scientific book Adrian Johns; Notes on contributors.
Summary
The history of the sciences and the history of the book are complementary. This accessibly-written, well-illustrated volume, published in 2000, covers the period from the Carolingian renaissance of learning to the mid nineteenth-century, and examines all aspects of the authorship, production, distribution, and reception of manuscripts, books and journals in the various sciences.
