Abstract
Publisher's Note:
The textbooks written by Adolphe Ganot (1804-87) played a major role in shaping the
way physics was taught in the nineteenth century. Simon's Franco-British case study
looks at the role of Ganot's two textbooks [...] and their translation into English
by Edmund Atkinson. The study is novel fr its international comparison of nineteenth-century
physics, its acknowledgement of the role of book-production on the impact of the titles
and for tis emphasis on the role of communication in the making of science.
