Author: Diana H. HookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine
Author: Diana H. HookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Science and Technology in Colonial America
Author: William E. BurnsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313017646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Science and technology are central to history of the United States, and this is true of the Colonial period as well. Although considered by Europeans as a backwater, the people living in the American colonies had advanced notions of agriculture, surveying, architecture, and other technologies. In areas of natural philosophy—what we call science—such figures as Benjamin Franklin were admired and respected in the scientific capitals of Europe. This book covers all aspects of how science and technology impacted the everyday life of Americans of all classes and cultures. Science and Technology in Everyday Life in Colonial America covers a wide range of topics that will interest students of American history and the history of science and technology: * Domestic technology—how colonial women devised new strategies for day-to-day survival * Agricultural—how Native Americans and African slaves influenced the development of a American system of agriculture * War—how the frequent battles during the colonial period changed how industry made consumer goods This volume includes myriad examples of the impact science and technology had on the lives of individual who lived in the New World.
Books on Printing, Bibliography, Illuminated Manuscripts and Bookbinding
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: The Publisher
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: Technical Paper
Author: United States. Bureau of the BudgetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 1796
Book Description
Antiquarian Bookman
Author: The Athenæum
Author: The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720
Author: Alastair J. MannPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788854195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This volume examines the Scottish book trade from c.1500 to c.1720, looking at booksellers, bookbinders, stationers and printers and their relationship to the forces of authority. The scale of the Scottish book trade in this period was surprisingly large, consisting of over 150 printers and over 400 booksellers, but its rate of growth was not constant as it was buffeted by the winds of economic and political circumstances. It is the public, not private world of book dissemination that is examined. Emphsis is placed more on supply than on demand. It is shown that the unique qualities of the printed book, with its blend of commerce and technology on the one hand, and intellect and ideology on the other, ensured that authority - burghs, church, governemt (crown and executive) and law courts - reacted with a complex response of liberty and prohibition. So it was for all nations experiencing the arrival of printing, but Scotland had its own particular range of dynamics, a distinct Scottish tradition.