"Devant le deluge" and other essays on early modern scientific communication /

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Author / Creator:Kronick, David A. (David Abraham), 1917-
Imprint:Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.
Description:x, 335 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5778781
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ISBN:0810850036 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: The Scientific Journal Devant le Deluge
  • 1. Nicolas de Blegny, Medical Journalist
  • 2. Scientific Journal Publication in the Eighteenth Century
  • 3. Studies of the Early Scientific Journal: The Basic Source Lists
  • 4. Toward a Typology of the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Scientific and Technical Periodical
  • 5. Indexing of Early Scientific Periodicals in the Index-Catalogue
  • 6. Authorship and Authority in the Scientific Periodicals of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • 7. Literature of the Life Sciences: The Historical Background
  • 8. Bibliographic Dispersion of Early Periodicals
  • 9. Anonymity and Identity: Editorial Policy in the Early Scientific Journal
  • 10. Notes on the Printing History of the Early Philosophical Transactions
  • 11. Medical Publishing Societies in Early Modern Britain
  • 12. Economic Aspects of Scientific Journalism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • 13. Antecedents to and Influences on the Early Modern Scientific Journal
  • 14. Establishing Periodicity in Early Modern Scientific Publications: Almanacs, Newspapers, and Journals
  • 15. The Commerce of Letters: Networks and Invisible Colleges in Early Modern Science
  • Index
  • About the Author