Histories of Science (eBook)

Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

David Alff, Danielle Spratt (Herausgeber)

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2025
366 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5170-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Spreading the news of scientific breakthroughs in the eighteenth centuryHistories of Science shows how different forms of media communicated scientific breakthroughs during the long eighteenth century, bringing together eighteen humanities scholars to discuss the representation, reception, and application of natural philosophy in the Atlantic world. In particular, the authors focus on descriptions of scientific discoveries in popular print, with essays on topics as varied as placebo pills, irrigation systems, and navigational technology. And while each contributor advances a discrete argument, the collection coheres in its shared questions of methodology, historicity, and ethics. Histories of Science expands our record of the past, our understanding of the present, and our ability to imagine the future.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.6.2025
• Co-Autor: Jess Keiser, Melissa Bailes, Vivian Zuluaga Papp, Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, Anne M. Thell, Aaron R. Hanlon, Laura Miller, Al Coppola, Helen Thompson, Lisa Forman Cody, Frank Boyle, Kristin M. Girten, Adela Ramos, Ramesh Mallipeddi, Eric Gidal, Anna K. Sagal, Rajani Sudan, Tobias Menely
• Zusatzinfo: 14
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: A Bold Stroke for a Wife • Age of Revolutions • A journal of the plague year • anatomy • animals • artists • ASECS Science Caucus • Atlantic World • A Voyage Round the World • children • craft laborers • Daniel Defoe • Early modern • Earth System theory • Enlightenment • enslaved African people • Evidence • exploration • formal criticism • geomythography • Husbandry • infrastructure studies • Irrigation systems • Isaac Newton • Jane Barker • Medical Humanities • Medicine • microscopes • Mythology • Nature • Navigation • New Experiments Physico-mechanical • New Historicism • object-oriented ontology • patients • performance studies • Philosophical Transactions • Placebo • plants • Plant studies • plows • Print Culture • Robert Boyle • Royal Society • Science and Literature • Scientific Revolution • Sextant • ship hands • Susanna Centlivre • Technology • Telescopes • theatrics • William Hogarth • witnessing • Women
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5170-4 / 0813951704
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5170-6 / 9780813951706