The history of the sciences and the history of the book are complementary, and there has been much recent innovative research in the intersection of these lively fields. This accessibly-written, well-illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship. The twenty specially-commissioned chapters cover the period from the Carolingian renaissance of learning to the mid-nineteenth century consolidation of science, and examine all aspects of the authorship, production, distribution, and reception of manuscripts, books and journals in the various sciences.

Contributors: Marina Frasca-Spada, Nick Jardine, Rosamond McMtterick, Jerry Brotton, Anthony Grafton, Ann Blair, Sachiko Kusukawa, Adam Mosley, Lauren Kassell, Silvia De Renzi, William Clark, Richard Yeo, Thomas Broman, Mary Terrall, Emma Spary, Aileen Fyfe, Adrian Johns, Jonathan Topham, Eugenia Roldan Vera, Lisa Jardine, Alan Stewart, James Secord