The Scientific Literature: A Guided TourJoseph E. Harmon, Alan G. Gross University of Chicago Press, 2007 M05 15 - 327 pages The scientific article has been a hallmark of the career of every important western scientist since the seventeenth century. Yet its role in the history of science has not been fully explored. Joseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross remedy this oversight with The Scientific Literature, a collection of writings—excerpts from scientific articles, letters, memoirs, proceedings, transactions, and magazines—that illustrates the origin of the scientific article in 1665 and its evolution over the next three and a half centuries. |
Contents
1 FIRST ENGLISH PERIODICAL | 1 |
On Early English Scientific Writing | 34 |
2 FIRST FRENCH PERIODICALS | 39 |
3 INTERNATIONALIZATION AND SPECIALIZATION | 75 |
4 SELECT PREMODERN CLASSICS | 118 |
5 EQUATIONS TABLES AND PICTURES | 152 |
6 ORGANIZING SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENTS | 188 |
NORMS AND PERTURBATIONS | 220 |