Studies on Eighteenth-Century Geology, Rappaport, Rhoda , Taylor, edited by Kenneth L.

Автор: R.L. Williams
Название: Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France
ISBN: 9048156785 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048156788
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Описание: The book describes the innovations that enabled botany, in the Eighteenth century, to emerge as an independent science, independent from medicine and herbalism.

Автор: Gunnarsson Britt Louise
Название: Languages of Science in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 3110255057 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110255058
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Цена: 222760.00 T
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Описание: The eighteenth century is an important period both in the history of science and in the history of languages. Interest in science, and especially in the useful sciences, exploded and a new, modern approach to scientific discovery and the accumulation of knowledge emerged. It was during this century, too, that ideas on language and language practice began to change. Latin had been more or less the only written language used for scientific purposes, but gradually the vernaculars became established as fully acceptable alternatives for scientific writing. The period is of interest, moreover, from a genre-historical point of view. Encyclopedias, dictionaries and also correspondence played a key role in the spread of scientific ideas. At the time, writing on scientific matters was not as distinct from fiction, poetry or religious texts as it is today, a fact which also gave a creative liberty to individual writers. In this volume, seventeen authors explore, from a variety of angles, the construction of a scientific language and discourse. The chapters are thematically organized into four sections, each contributing to our understanding of this dynamic period in the history of science: their themes are the forming of scientific communities, the emergence of new languages of science, the spread of scientific ideas, and the development of scientific writing. A particular focus is placed on the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778). From the point of view of the natural sciences, Linnaeus is renowned for his principles for defining genera and species of organisms and his creation of a uniform system for naming them. From the standpoint of this volume, however, he is also of interest as an example of a European scientist of the eighteenth century. This volu

Автор: Lawrence M. Principe
Название: New Narratives in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry
ISBN: 9048175933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048175932
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Описание: The eighteenth century has long been considered critical for the development of modern chemistry, yet many features of the period remain largely unknown or unexplored. Themes include late-phase alchemy, professionalization, chemical education, and the links and relations between chemistry and pharmacy, medicine, agriculture, and geology.

Автор: Fara Patricia
Название: Sympathetic Attractions: Magnetic Practices, Beliefs, and Symbolism in Eighteenth-Century England
ISBN: 0691606072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691606071
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, appropriating the skills and knowledge of experienced navigators. For people of this period, magnetic phenomena reverberated with the symbolism of occult mystery, sexual attraction, and universal sympath

Автор: Lynn Michael R.
Название: Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France
ISBN: 071907374X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719073748
Издательство: NBN International
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Описание: This book analyses the forms of popular science, the social and economic status of those who practiced it and the audience, and the settings for scientific dissemination and appropriation. -- .

Автор: Yallop Helen
Название: Age and Identity in Eighteenth-Century England
ISBN: 1138662232 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138662230
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Yallop looks at how people in eighteenth-century England understood and dealt with growing older. Though no word for `aging` existed at this time, a person`s age was a significant aspect of their identity.

Автор: Packham
Название: Eighteenth-Century Vitalism
ISBN: 0230276180 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230276185
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Описание: This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the `vitalist` turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s.

Автор: Jenifer Buckley
Название: Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature
ISBN: 3319538349 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319538341
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Описание: This book reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwifery, performance, marriage, the body, education, and creative imagination.

Название: Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Culture
ISBN: 1138255874 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138255876
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Описание: Combining historical and interpretive work, this collection examines changing perceptions of and relations between human and nonhuman animals in Britain over the long eighteenth century. Persistent questions concern modes of representing animals and animal-human hybrids, as well as the ethical issues raised by the human uses of other animals. From the animal men of Thomas Rowlandson to the part animal-part human creature of Victor Frankenstein, hybridity serves less as a metaphor than as a metonym for the intersections of humans and other animals. The contributors address such recurring questions as the implications of the Enlightenment project of naming and classifying animals, the equating of non-European races and nonhuman animals in early ethnographic texts, and the desire to distinguish the purely human from the entirely nonhuman animal. Gulliver's Travels and works by Mary and Percy Shelley emerge as key texts for this study. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students who work in animal, colonial, gender, and cultural studies; and will appeal to general readers concerned with the representation of animals and their treatment by humans.

Автор: Helen Yallop
Название: Age and Identity in Eighteenth-Century England
ISBN: 1848934017 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848934016
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Yallop looks at how people in eighteenth-century England understood and dealt with growing older. Though no word for `aging` existed at this time, a person`s age was a significant aspect of their identity.

Автор: Dorner Zachary
Название: Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain`s Long Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 022670680X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226706801
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Описание: The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century--the so-called long eighteenth century of English history--was a time of profound global change, marked by the expansion of intercontinental empires, long-distance trade, and human enslavement. It was also the moment when medicines, previously produced locally and in small batches, became global products. As greater numbers of British subjects struggled to survive overseas, more medicines than ever were manufactured and exported to help them. Most historical accounts, however, obscure the medicine trade's dependence on slave labor, plantation agriculture, and colonial warfare.

In Merchants of Medicines, Zachary Dorner follows the earliest industrial pharmaceuticals from their manufacture in the United Kingdom, across trade routes, and to the edges of empire, telling a story of what medicines were, what they did, and what they meant. He brings to life business, medical, and government records to evoke a vibrant early modern world of London laboratories, Caribbean estates, South Asian factories, New England timber camps, and ships at sea. In these settings, medicines were produced, distributed, and consumed in new ways to help confront challenges of distance, labor, and authority in colonial territories. Merchants of Medicines offers a new history of economic and medical development across early America, Britain, and South Asia, revealing the unsettlingly close ties among medicine, finance, warfare, and slavery that changed people's expectations of their health and their bodies.

Название: The Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy
ISBN: 1138606839 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138606838
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Описание: This collection of essays challenges the prevailing assumption that eighteenth-century German philosophy prior to Kant was largely defined by post-Leibnizian rationalism and, accordingly, a low esteem of the cognitive function of the senses.