Communicating Chemistry

Communicating Chemistry

Textbooks and Their Audiences, 1789-1939

by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Anders Lundgren

465 pages· 2000· ISBN 9780881352740
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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.

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