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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaiser, David I.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press/History of Science Society 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82907
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5054-6744

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