The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 4 Eighteenth-Century Science / edited by Roy Porter
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003. 1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #443160
ISBN: 0521572436
Physical description; (xxx, 912 pages) : illustrations. Contents; The Legacy of the "Scientific Revolution": Science and the Enlightenment / Peter Hanns Reill -- Science, the Universities, and other Public Spaces: Teaching Science in Europe and the Americas / Laurence Brockliss -- Scientific Institutions and the Organization of Science / James III McClellan -- Science and Government / Robert Fox -- Exploring Natural Knowledge: Science and the Popular / Mary Fissell and Roger Cooter -- The Image of the Man of Science / Steven Shapin -- The Philosopher's Beard: Women and Gender in Science / Londa Schiebinger -- The Pursuit of the Prosopography of Science / William Clark -- Part II -- Classifying the Sciences / Richard Yeo -- Philosophy of Science / Rob Iliffe -- Ideas of Nature: Natural Philosophy / John Gascoigne -- Mathematics / Craig Fraser -- Astronomy and Cosmology / Curtis Wilson -- Mechanics and Experimental Physics / R.W. Home -- Chemistry / Jan Golinski -- The Life Sciences / Shirley A. Roe -- The Earth Sciences / Rhoda Rappaport -- The Human Sciences / Richard Olson -- The Medical Sciences / Thomas H. Broman -- Marginalized Practices / Patricia Fara -- Part III Special Themes -- Eighteenth-Century Scientific Instruments and Their Makers / G. L'E. Turner -- Print and Public Science / Adrian Johns -- Scientific Illustration in the Eighteenth Century / Brian J. Ford -- Science, Art, and the Representation of the Natural World / Charlotte Klonk -- Science and Voyages of Discovery / Rob Iliffe -- Part IV Non-Western Traditions -- Islam / Emilie Savage-Smith -- India / Deepak Kumar -- China / Frank Diko?tter -- Japan / Shigeru Nakayama -- Spanish America: From Baroque to Modern Colonial Science / Jorge Can?izares Esguerra -- Part V Ramifications and Impacts -- Science and Religion / John Hedley Brooke -- Science, Culture, and the Imagination: Enlightenment Configurations / George S. Rousseau -- Science, Philosophy, and the Mind / Paul Wood -- Global Pillage: Science, Commerce, and Empire / Larry Stewart -- Technological and Industrial Change: A Comparative Essay / Ian Inkster. Subjects; Science History 18th century. Natural history. Science History. Social sciences--History. Discoveries in science History.
Price: €125.00