Eight Papers from the Joint Meeting between the

Textbook Colloquium and The British Society for the History of Science

held on January 10th 1998 at Leeds University.

Textbooks as history: the work of the colloquium
Ian Michael
Institute of Education, London University

Textbooks and the history of science
John Hedley Brooke
University of Lancaster

The world wide web and chemistry textbooks on line
Bill Palmer
Faculty of Education, Northern Territory University, Australia

A tale of two encyclopaedias: transitions in the presentation of scientific knowledge
John Issitt
The Open University

A textbook revolution: J. Deighton and Sons and the reform of mathematics in early nineteenth-century Cambridge
Jon Topham
University of Cambridge

Exporting textbooks: the Latin American enterprise of Rudolph Ackerman
Eugenia Roldan Vera
University of Cambridge

Book-borne ghosts who talk in us : John Tyndall's ways of talking and their residue today
Clive Sutton
University of Leicester

The communication of science by popular books 1700-1760
Michael Honeybone
The Open University

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