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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan G Gross; Joseph E Harmon |
| ISBN: | 9780226316550 9780226316567 0226316564 0226316556 |
| OCLC Number: | 427535197 |
| Description: | xvii, 327 p. : il. |
| Responsibility: | edited with commentaries by Joseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross. |
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"There are now many historical and sociological studies of scientific communication. Joseph Harmon and Alan Gross''s book, "The Scientific Literature", is something different--neither a research monograph on the history of scientific writing nor a straightforward compilation of excerpts. . . It includes about 125 examples of scientific writing taken from papers, books, reviews and Nobel speeches, and covers materials from the seventeenth century up to the announcement of the rough draft of the human genome in 2001....These scientific snippets are embedded in strands of editorial commentary describing, highlighting and interpreting. The tone is genial: the ''guided tour'' doesn''t threaten arduous intellectual adventure. Rhetorical terms are explained, scientific authors are identified, and pertinent scientific contexts are introduced."--Steven Shapin, "Nature"
--Steven Shapin"Nature" (08/16/2007)
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