Tag: eBooks

e-books — teaching — outreach

Post author By Darin
Post date February 10, 2012

iBooks Author, released last month, officially represents Apple’s move into textbooks and offers some really promising features. Apple attracted considerable criticism for iBooks Author’s strict EULA and for its lack of support for EPUB standards. I am not interested in those debates—they certainly have merit and raise issues that should be discussed—but rather interested in […]

Teaching

ePamphlet Guide to the Astrolabe

Post author By Darin
Post date February 7, 2012
5 Comments on ePamphlet Guide to the Astrolabe

I recently posted An Introductory History to Astrolabes over at PACHS. There seemed to be considerable interest in that post, so I expanded it a bit and converted it to an ePamphlet. Much of the material comes out of my introduction to the history of science course. The goal was to produce a convenient introduction […]