UID:
almahu_9947414845302882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiii, 500 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511572982 (ebook)
Inhalt:
The thirteen original essays in this book examine the status and development of the sciences in the eighteenth century. The last generation has seen a revolution in the methodology adopted by historians of science: The development of science is no longer described as a steady progress towards truth – certainties have given way to questions. The essays in this volume scrutinize these changing perspectives in historiography and recommend paths for future study. The eighteenth century has been a neglected and much-misunderstood era in the development of science, all too often viewed as something of a trough between the towering achievements of the 'Scientific Revolution' and the nineteenth century. Yet it was a period of notable developments; it saw the establishment of such fields as electricity and heat, the 'chemical revolution', the new science of gases, the isolation of oxygen, the nebular hypothesis in cosmology, the foundation of rational mechanics, and the birth pangs of biology, geology and psychology. It was, indeed, an age when knowledge was in ferment.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Philosophy and ideas:
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Knowledge /
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Natural philosophy /
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Social uses of science /
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Life and its environment:
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Psychology /
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Health, disease and medical care /
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The living world /
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The terraqueous globe /
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The physical world:
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Mathematics and rational mechanics /
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Experimental natural philosophy /
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Chemistry and the chemical revolution /
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Mathematical cosmography /
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Science, technology and industry /
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9780521225991
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511572982
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