Communicating Physics: The Production, Circulation and Appropriation of Ganot's Textbooks in France and England, 1851-1887 (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century) - Hardcover

Simon, Josep

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848931301 ISBN 13: 9781848931305

Verlag: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd, 2011

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The textbooks written by Adolphe Ganot (1804–1887) played a major role in shaping the way physics was taught in the nineteenth century. Ganot's books were translated from their original French into more than ten languages, including English, allowing their adoption as standard works in Britain and spreading their influence as far as North America, Australia, India and Japan.

Simon's Franco-British case study looks at the role of Ganot's two textbooks: Traité élémentaire de physique expérimentale et appliquée (1851) and Cours de physique purement expérimentale (1859), and their translations into English by Edmund Atkinson. The study is novel for its international comparison of nineteenth-century physics, its acknowledgement of the role of book production on the impact of the titles and for its emphasis on the role of communication in the making of science.

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Josep Simon a senior lecturer in history of science, technology, and medicine, at Universitat de València, Spain.

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• Verlag: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1848931301
• ISBN 13: 9781848931305
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 302
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