Author: Jean Palairet
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae
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Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Practical Matter
Author: Margaret C. Jacob
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039033
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Margaret Jacob and Larry Stewart examine the profound transformation that began in 1687. From the year when Newton published his Principia to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, science gradually became central to Western thought and economic development. The book aims at a general audience and examines how, despite powerful opposition on the Continent, a Newtonian understanding gained acceptance and practical application. By the mid-eighteenth century the new science had achieved ascendancy, and the race was on to apply Newtonian mechanics to industry and manufacturing. They end the story with the temple to scientific and technological progress that was the Crystal Palace exhibition. Choosing their examples carefully, Jacob and Stewart show that there was nothing preordained or inevitable about the centrality awarded to science. "It is easy to forget that science might have been stillborn, or remained the esoteric knowledge of court elites. Instead, for better and for worse, science became a centerpiece of Western culture."
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039033
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Margaret Jacob and Larry Stewart examine the profound transformation that began in 1687. From the year when Newton published his Principia to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, science gradually became central to Western thought and economic development. The book aims at a general audience and examines how, despite powerful opposition on the Continent, a Newtonian understanding gained acceptance and practical application. By the mid-eighteenth century the new science had achieved ascendancy, and the race was on to apply Newtonian mechanics to industry and manufacturing. They end the story with the temple to scientific and technological progress that was the Crystal Palace exhibition. Choosing their examples carefully, Jacob and Stewart show that there was nothing preordained or inevitable about the centrality awarded to science. "It is easy to forget that science might have been stillborn, or remained the esoteric knowledge of court elites. Instead, for better and for worse, science became a centerpiece of Western culture."
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Report of the Department of Science and Art of the Committee of Council on Education
Author: Great Britain Department of Science and Art
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
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Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Languages : en
Pages : 760
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The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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A Register of Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Discourse on the Sciences and Arts
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Rousseau attacks the social and political effects of the dominant forms of scientific knowledge. Contains the entire First Discourse, contemporary attacks on it, Rousseau's replies to his critics, and his summary of the debate in his preface to Narcissus. A number of these texts have never before been available in English. The First Discourse and Polemics demonstrate the continued relevance of Rousseau's thought. Whereas his critics argue for correction of the excesses and corruptions of knowledge and the sciences as sufficient, Rousseau attacks the social and political effects of the dominant forms of scientific knowledge.
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Rousseau attacks the social and political effects of the dominant forms of scientific knowledge. Contains the entire First Discourse, contemporary attacks on it, Rousseau's replies to his critics, and his summary of the debate in his preface to Narcissus. A number of these texts have never before been available in English. The First Discourse and Polemics demonstrate the continued relevance of Rousseau's thought. Whereas his critics argue for correction of the excesses and corruptions of knowledge and the sciences as sufficient, Rousseau attacks the social and political effects of the dominant forms of scientific knowledge.