Tables of Contents for Books and the Sciences in History

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: books and sciences Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine

Part I. Triumphs of the Book: 1. Books and sciences before print Rosamond McKitterick

2. Printing the world Jerry Brotton

3. Geniture collections, origins and uses of a genre Anthony Grafton

4. Annotating and indexing natural philosophy Ann Blair

5. Illustrating nature Sachiko Kusukawa

6. Astronomical books and courtly communication Adam Mosley

7. Reading for the philosophers' stone Lauren Kassell

8. Writing and talking of exotic animals Silvia De Renzi

Part II. Learned and Conversable Reading: 9. Compendious footnotes Marina Frasca-Spada

10. On the bureaucratic plots of the research library William Clark

11. Encyclopaedic knowledge Richard Yeo

12. Periodical literature Thomas Broman

13. Natural philosophy for fashionable readers Mary Terrall

14. Rococo readings of the book of nature Emma Spary

15. Young readers and the sciences Aileen Fyfe

16. The physiology of reading Adrian Johns

Part III. Publication in the Age of Science: 17. A textbook revolution Jonathan Topham

18. Useful knowledge for export Eugenia Roldà

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19. Editing a hero of modern science Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart

20. Progress in print James Secord

Afterwords: Books, texts, and the making of knowledge Nick Jardine

The past, present, and future of the scientific book Adrian Johns

Notes on contributors.