The latest issue of BJHS Themes (Volume 5, 2020) is now available online in Open Access.

Special issue: Learning by the Book: Manuals and Handbooks in the History of Science. Editors: Elaine Leong, Angela Creager, Mathias Grote

Among the research articles:

Learning by the book: manuals and handbooks in the history of science – Angela N.H. Creager, Mathias Grote, Elaine Leong

Reading instructions of the past, classifying them, and reclassifying them: commentaries on the canon The Nine Chapters on Mathematical Procedures from the third to the thirteenth centuries – Karine Chemla

Ancient handbooks and Graeco-Egyptian collections of alchemical recipes – Matteo Martelli

Reading alchemically: guides to ‘philosophical’ practice in early modern England – Jennifer M. Rampling

From under the elbow to pointing to the palm: Chinese metaphors for learning medicine by the book (fourth–fourteenth centuries) – Marta Hanson

Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London – Elaine Leong

The book as instrument: craft and technique in early modern practical mathematics – Boris Jardine

The ‘book’ as fieldwork: ‘textual institutions’ and nature knowledge in early modern Japan – Federico Marcon

Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjhs-themes/volume/7001F78A212097CCB7683031434BFD54