Author: Benjamin Martin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences
Author: Benjamin Martin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences, Philosophical, Philological, Mathematical, and Mechanical
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Includes: The young gentlemen's and lady's philosophy ... The natural history of the world ... A compleat system of philological sciences ... A body of mathematical institutions ... Miscellaneous correspondence ... Biographia philosophica ... The general magazine.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Includes: The young gentlemen's and lady's philosophy ... The natural history of the world ... A compleat system of philological sciences ... A body of mathematical institutions ... Miscellaneous correspondence ... Biographia philosophica ... The general magazine.
General Magazine of Arts and Sciences, Philosophical, Philological, Mathematical and Mechanical
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Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Discovering the Human
Author: Ralf Haekel
Publisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 384700137X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
'Discovering the Human' investigates the emergence of the modern human sciences and their impact on literature, art and other media in the 18th and 19th centuries. Up until the 1830s, science and culture were part of a joint endeavour to discover and explore the secret of life. The question 'What is life?' unites science and the arts during the Ages of Enlightenment and Romanticism, and at the end of the Romantic period, a shift of focus from the human as an organic whole to the specialized disciplines signals the dawning of modernity. The emphasis of the edited collection is threefold: the first part sheds light on the human in art and science in the Age of Enlightenment, the second part is concerned with the transitions taking place at the turn of the 19th century. The chapters forming the third part investigate the impact of different media on the concept of the human in science, literature and film.
Publisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 384700137X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
'Discovering the Human' investigates the emergence of the modern human sciences and their impact on literature, art and other media in the 18th and 19th centuries. Up until the 1830s, science and culture were part of a joint endeavour to discover and explore the secret of life. The question 'What is life?' unites science and the arts during the Ages of Enlightenment and Romanticism, and at the end of the Romantic period, a shift of focus from the human as an organic whole to the specialized disciplines signals the dawning of modernity. The emphasis of the edited collection is threefold: the first part sheds light on the human in art and science in the Age of Enlightenment, the second part is concerned with the transitions taking place at the turn of the 19th century. The chapters forming the third part investigate the impact of different media on the concept of the human in science, literature and film.
Literature, Language, and the Rise of the Intellectual Disciplines in Britain, 1680–1820
Author: Robin Valenza
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139482815
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The divide between the sciences and the humanities, which often seem to speak entirely different languages, has its roots in the way intellectual disciplines developed in the long eighteenth century. As various fields of study became defined and to some degree professionalized, their ways of communicating evolved into an increasingly specialist vocabulary. Chemists, physicists, philosophers, and poets argued about whether their discourses should become more and more specialised, or whether they should aim to remain intelligible to the layperson. In this interdisciplinary study, Robin Valenza shows how Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth invented new intellectual languages. By offering a much-needed account of the rise of the modern disciplines, Robin Valenza shows why the sciences and humanities diverged so strongly, and argues that literature has a special role in navigating between the languages of different areas of thought.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139482815
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The divide between the sciences and the humanities, which often seem to speak entirely different languages, has its roots in the way intellectual disciplines developed in the long eighteenth century. As various fields of study became defined and to some degree professionalized, their ways of communicating evolved into an increasingly specialist vocabulary. Chemists, physicists, philosophers, and poets argued about whether their discourses should become more and more specialised, or whether they should aim to remain intelligible to the layperson. In this interdisciplinary study, Robin Valenza shows how Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth invented new intellectual languages. By offering a much-needed account of the rise of the modern disciplines, Robin Valenza shows why the sciences and humanities diverged so strongly, and argues that literature has a special role in navigating between the languages of different areas of thought.
Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe
Author: Elizabethanne A. Boran
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004336656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe investigates how Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia was read, interpreted and remodelled for a variety of readerships in eighteenth-century Europe. The editors, Mordechai Feingold and Elizabethanne Boran, have brought together papers which explore how, when, where and why the Principia was appropriated by readers in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, England and Ireland. Particular focus is laid on the methods of transmission of Newtonian ideas via university textbooks and popular works written for educated laymen and women. At the same time, challenges to the Newtonian consensus are explored by writers such as Marius Stan and Catherine Abou-Nemeh who examine Cartesian and Leibnizian responses to the Principia. Eighteenth-century attempts to remodel Newton as a heretic are explored by Feingold, while William R. Newman draws attention to vital new sources highlighting the importance of alchemy to Newton. Contributors are: Catherine Abou-Nemeh, Claudia Addabbo, Elizabethanne Boran, Steffen Ducheyne, Moredechai Feingold, Sarah Hutton, Juan Navarro-Loidi, William R. Newman, Luc Peterschmitt, Anna Marie Roos, Marius Stan, and Gerhard Wiesenfeldt.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004336656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe investigates how Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia was read, interpreted and remodelled for a variety of readerships in eighteenth-century Europe. The editors, Mordechai Feingold and Elizabethanne Boran, have brought together papers which explore how, when, where and why the Principia was appropriated by readers in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, England and Ireland. Particular focus is laid on the methods of transmission of Newtonian ideas via university textbooks and popular works written for educated laymen and women. At the same time, challenges to the Newtonian consensus are explored by writers such as Marius Stan and Catherine Abou-Nemeh who examine Cartesian and Leibnizian responses to the Principia. Eighteenth-century attempts to remodel Newton as a heretic are explored by Feingold, while William R. Newman draws attention to vital new sources highlighting the importance of alchemy to Newton. Contributors are: Catherine Abou-Nemeh, Claudia Addabbo, Elizabethanne Boran, Steffen Ducheyne, Moredechai Feingold, Sarah Hutton, Juan Navarro-Loidi, William R. Newman, Luc Peterschmitt, Anna Marie Roos, Marius Stan, and Gerhard Wiesenfeldt.
The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Includes: The young gentlemen's and lady's philosophy ... The natural history of the world ... A compleat system of philological sciences ... A body of mathematical institutions ... Miscellaneous correspondence ... Biographia philosophica ... The general magazine.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Includes: The young gentlemen's and lady's philosophy ... The natural history of the world ... A compleat system of philological sciences ... A body of mathematical institutions ... Miscellaneous correspondence ... Biographia philosophica ... The general magazine.
Frankenstein's Science
Author: Jane Goodall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351935836
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Though Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has inspired a vast body of criticism, there are no book-length studies that contextualise this widely taught novel in contemporary scientific and literary debates. The essays in this volume by leading writers in their fields provide new historical scholarship into areas of science and pseudo-science that generated fierce controversy in Mary Shelley's time: anatomy, electricity, medicine, teratology, Mesmerism, quackery and proto-evolutionary biology. The collection embraces a multifaceted view of the exciting cultural climate in Britain and Europe from 1780 to 1830. While Frankenstein is all too often read as a cautionary tale of the inherent dangers of uncontrolled scientific experimentation, the essays here take the reader back to a period when experimenters and radical thinkers viewed science as the harbinger of social innovation that would counter the virulent conservative backlash following the French Revolution. The collection will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars specialising in Romanticism, cultural history, philosophy and the history of science.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351935836
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Though Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has inspired a vast body of criticism, there are no book-length studies that contextualise this widely taught novel in contemporary scientific and literary debates. The essays in this volume by leading writers in their fields provide new historical scholarship into areas of science and pseudo-science that generated fierce controversy in Mary Shelley's time: anatomy, electricity, medicine, teratology, Mesmerism, quackery and proto-evolutionary biology. The collection embraces a multifaceted view of the exciting cultural climate in Britain and Europe from 1780 to 1830. While Frankenstein is all too often read as a cautionary tale of the inherent dangers of uncontrolled scientific experimentation, the essays here take the reader back to a period when experimenters and radical thinkers viewed science as the harbinger of social innovation that would counter the virulent conservative backlash following the French Revolution. The collection will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars specialising in Romanticism, cultural history, philosophy and the history of science.
Benjamin Martin
Author: J.R. Millburn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401178828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401178828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Theater of Experiment
Author: Al Coppola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190269715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science. It analyzes eighteenth-century theatrical representations of science in order to demonstrate how experimental natural philosophy was itself a kind of performing art that was shaped by a wider culture of spectacle in the Enlightenment.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190269715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science. It analyzes eighteenth-century theatrical representations of science in order to demonstrate how experimental natural philosophy was itself a kind of performing art that was shaped by a wider culture of spectacle in the Enlightenment.