Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. As a reader of this magazine, you are most likely already familiar with this book. You may have owned the book for some time, or even if you haven't had it for long, do you remember how you first got the book?
Perhaps the book was given to you by a friend, or you borrowed it from the library. Maybe you've owned it all of your life. Some unusual first encounters include finding it at a flea market on a book bargain table and in the waiting room of an auto repair shop.
Science and Health is a book that has had a tremendous effect on a lot of people— nearly nine million people according to sales figures. Over its 119-year publishing history it has been distributed by door-to-door salesmen, lent by public and private libraries, sold in bookstores and Christian Science Reading Rooms; has been published in cloth, leather, and paperback print bindings in seventeen languages and English Braille; and has been produced on audio records, cassettes, compact discs, and electronic media. All of these efforts have increased the availability and accessibility of the book.
