Communicating Chemistry: Textbooks and Their Audiences, 1789-1939Anders Lundgren, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Science History Publications/USA, 2000 - 465 pages Historians and philosophers of science offer 18 papers from a European Science Foundation workshop held in Uppsala, Sweden, in February 1996, explore such questions as how textbooks differ from other forms of chemical literature, under what conditions they become established as a genre, whether they develop a specific rhetoric, how their audiences help shape the profile of chemistry, translations, and other topics. Only names are indexed. |
Contents
New Books for New Readers and | 19 |
A Sketch of the Audience | 57 |
Theory and Practice in Swedish Chemical Textbooks during the Nineteenth | 91 |
Chemistry in Physics Textbooks 17801820 | 119 |
Some Examples from | 141 |
Berthollet Bancroft and Textbooks on the | 165 |
The Frontier between Popular Books | 187 |
Chemical Textbooks and Dictionaries 18101835 | 207 |
Lecture Notes and Textbooks at the French École | 273 |
Mendeleevs Principles of Chemistry and the Periodic Law of | 295 |
Chemistry for Women in NineteenthCentury France | 311 |
Popular Chemical Writing in Germany | 327 |
The Hungarian | 367 |
Linus Pauling and the Reformulation of | 397 |
One Face or Many? The Role of Textbooks in Building the New Discipline | 415 |
Notes on Contributors | 451 |
In Translation and Multiple Editions as Seen Through | 233 |
Three Rhetorical Constructions of the Chemistry of Water | 255 |
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