Dutch messengers [electronic resource] : a history of science publishing, 1930-1980 / by Cornelis D. Andriesse.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Library of the written word ; 7. | Library of the written word. Industrial world ; ; v. 1.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2008.Description: x, 281 p., [31] p. of plates : ill. (some col.)Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 070.50949209/04 22
LOC classification:
  • Z286.S4 A53 2008eb
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Contents:
On science publishing -- The publisher of Huygens and Lorentz -- Quest for the lingua franca -- German scenes -- Two scenes from 1942 -- A letter and three scenes from 1938 -- Two and a half scenes from 1933 -- Elsevier's venture -- Encyclopedia of organic chemistry -- Little Beilstein -- Book of health -- Biochimica et biophysica acta -- Frank and his "North-Holland" -- Choice for physics -- Monographs on theoretical and applied physics -- Quest for journal editors -- Beyond physics -- Excerpta medica -- Biological publications -- Philosophical diversions -- The Associated Scientific Publishers -- Dissolution of boundaries -- The integration -- Saturation -- Towards the Internet revolution.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-271) and index.

On science publishing -- The publisher of Huygens and Lorentz -- Quest for the lingua franca -- German scenes -- Two scenes from 1942 -- A letter and three scenes from 1938 -- Two and a half scenes from 1933 -- Elsevier's venture -- Encyclopedia of organic chemistry -- Little Beilstein -- Book of health -- Biochimica et biophysica acta -- Frank and his "North-Holland" -- Choice for physics -- Monographs on theoretical and applied physics -- Quest for journal editors -- Beyond physics -- Excerpta medica -- Biological publications -- Philosophical diversions -- The Associated Scientific Publishers -- Dissolution of boundaries -- The integration -- Saturation -- Towards the Internet revolution.

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