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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1 : Natural philosophy and mathematics in print 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 Part 2 : The circulation of scientific knowledge in print 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 Part 3 : science education and health activism in print 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