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Science in the Enlightenment - An Encyclopedia (Hardcover, New)
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Science in the Enlightenment - An Encyclopedia (Hardcover, New)
Series: History of Science
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Total price: R3,224
Discovery Miles: 32 240
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The first introductory A–Z resource on the dynamic achievements
in science from the late 1600s to 1820, including the great minds
behind the developments and science's new cultural role. Though the
Enlightenment was a time of amazing scientific change, science is
an often-neglected facet of that time. Now, Science in the
Enlightenment redresses the balance by covering all the major
scientific developments in the period between Newton's discoveries
in the late 1600s to the early 1800s of Michael Faraday and Georges
Cuvier. Over 200 A-Z entries explore a range of disciplines,
including astronomy and medicine, scientists such as Sir Humphry
Davy and Benjamin Franklin, and instruments such as the telescope
and calorimeter. Emphasis is placed on the role of women, and
proper attention is given to the shifts in the worldview brought
about by Newtonian physics, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's "chemical
revolution," and universal systems of botanical and zoological
classification. Moreover, the social impact of science is explored,
as well as the ways in which the work of scientists influenced the
thinking of philosophers such as Voltaire and Denis Diderot and the
writers and artists of the romantic movement.
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