A Tale of Two Textbooks: Experiments in Genre
Though the notion of a scientific textbook has been around for almost three centuries, the category has hardly been stable. The plasticity of the textbook genre may be illustrated by recent variations as well as long-term trends. In this brief essay I examine two idiosyncratic but highly successful...
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University of Chicago Press/History of Science Society,
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