Umfang:
1 online resource
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781003554226
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1003554229
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9781040234228
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1040234224
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9781040242018
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1040242014
Serie:
Variorum collected studies series CS946
Inhalt:
Introduction -- "The wisdom of the Egyptians" and the secularisation of history in the age of Newton -- From Bentley to the Victorians : the rise and fall of British Newtonian natural theology -- Sensible Newtonians : Nicholas Saunderson and John Colson -- Science, religion and the foundations of morality in Enlightenment Britain -- The teaching of philosophy within the British universities and learned societies of the eighteenth century -- Motives for European exploration of the Pacific in the age of the Enlightenment -- Joseph Banks, mapping and the geographies of natural knowledge -- Blumenbach, Banks, and the beginnings of anthropology at Göttingen -- The German Enlightenment and the Pacific -- The Royal Society, natural history and the peoples of the New World(s), 1660-1800.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781409400585
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781409400585
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9781003554226
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