{"product_id":"devant-le-deluge-and-other-essays-on-early-modern-scientific-communication-9780810850033","title":"Devant le Deluge and Other Essays on Early Modern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than forty years, librarians and others have come to rely upon David Kronick''s knowledge and expertise of the history and development of scientific journals. His writings have blazed a trail through the uncharted territory of scientific serial publishing. This volume brings together for the first time a collection of fifteen articles that discuss particular aspects of scientific communication from the early days of its ascendancy, ''before the information explosion.'' The essays examine topics such as editorial policy in the early journals, the economic side of scientific publishing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, aspects of journal indexing, early modern scientific networks, and the issues of authorship and authority. The whole constitutes a body of work that reveals both the richness and scope for further inquiry that has motivated Kronick for decades. All are topics that librarians as well as students and scholars in the philosophy of science, the sociology of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifteen readable essays examine topics such as editorial policy in the early journals, the economic side of scientific publishing in the 17th and 18th centuries, aspects of journal indexing, early modern scientific networks, and the issues of authorship and authority. The whole constitutes a body of work that reveals both the richness and scope for further inquiry that has motivated Kronick for decades. * Wordtrade.Com *\u003cbr\u003e...collects 15 essays, many previously published in various journals between 1960 and 1994, that explore aspects of scientific journalism in the 17th and 18th centuries, before the \"deluge\" known as the information revolution....discusses such topics as the indexing of early scientific periodicals, authorship and authority, bibliographic dispersion of periodicals, medical publishing societies in Early Modern Britain, economic aspects of scientific journalism, and scientific networks of letter writing. * Reference and Research Book News *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Nicolas de Blegny, Medical Journalist 2 Scientific Journal Publication in the Eighteenth Century 3 Studies of the Early Scientific Journals: The Basic Source Lists 4 Toward a Typology of the 17th and 18th Century Periodicals 5 Indexing of Early Scientific Periodicals on thd 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 Philosophical Transactions 11 Medical Publishing Societies in Eighteenth Century Britian 12 Economic Aspects of Scientific Journalism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 13 Antecedants to and Influences on the Early Modern Scientific Journal... 14 Establishing Periodicity in Early Modern Scientific Communication: Almanacs, Newspapers and Journals 15 The Commerce of: Letters: Networks and Invisible Colleges in Early Modern Science","brand":"Scarecrow Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038315348311,"sku":"9780810850033","price":83.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810850033.jpg?v=1750939889","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/devant-le-deluge-and-other-essays-on-early-modern-scientific-communication-9780810850033","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}