Introduction: The secret lives of textbooks.
Textbooks have a low status in the history of science because they have been seen as mere repositories for scientific knowledge. But historians have recently shown how they play a number of roles that can illuminate different aspects of the history of science, from priority disputes to pedagogical practices. The essays in this Focus section aim to expand our vision of textbooks further by showing how they perform various hybrid functions in scientific development.
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, 91 Charles Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1K7. marga.vicedo@utoronto.ca
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