Jeremiah Joyce: science educationist.
This article illustrates the work of Jeremiah Joyce--a jobbing scientific textbook author working at the beginning of the 19th century. It shows how textbook authorship was a developing craft and how textbooks were partly formulated from the commercial speculations of educational publishers. The article seeks to promote the study of textbooks as a rich source for the history of science.
D049672:History, 19th Century; D012586:Science / Q000266:history*; D013782:Textbooks as Topic / Q000266:history*