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...
Main Author: | Kaiser, David I. (Contributor) |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society (Contributor) |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
University of Chicago Press/History of Science Society,
2013-12-10T20:45:42Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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