Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors : A Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in Relation to the History of Science (Hardcover, 4 ed)

Contents: Introduction, Andrew Hunter; The scientific book as a cultural and bibliographical object, Henry E. Lowood and Robin E. Rider; Ancient science, Liba Taub; Transitions 1: scientific writing in the Latin Middle Ages, S. Livesey; Transitions 2: Islamic science, J. Sesiano; Incunables and sixteenth-century books, Sachiko Kusukawa; Words of Nature: scientific books in the seventeenth century, Tara Nummedal and Paula Findlen; Eighteenth-century scientific publishing, Brian J. Ford; Books on the natural sciences in the nineteenth century, Frank A. J. L. James; Science publishing in the twentieth century, A.J. Meadows; Scientific bibliographies and bibliographers, and the history of the history of science, W. H. Brock; Scientific books and their owners: a survey to c. 1720, Giles Mandelbrote; Scientific book collectors and collections, public and private, 1720 to date, Judith Overmier; Index.