Thornton and Tully's scientific books, libraries, and collectors : a study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to the history of science / edited by Andrew Hunter
Thornton, John Leonard Scientific books, libraries, and collectors Search this
Physical description:
xii, 405 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Bibliography
Date:
2000
C2000
Notes:
Originally published: Scientific books, libraries, and collectors. 3rd ed. London : Library Association, 1971. Considerably revised, and rewritten.
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
