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This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.
Additional Editors Are G. R. De Beer, John Fulton, Howard Mumford Jones, And Julian Boyd.
1937. This essay is intended to show how scientific matters stood and what was thought of them, especially in England, in one of the periods in which western civilizations was most rapidly moving towards its present state--the age of Newton. Contents: science and technology; the economic incentives to invention; social and economic aspects of science; social control of technological improvement; social science; the occasion of Fleetwood's "Chronicon Preciosum."
Originally published in 1944, this book presents the content of Sir George Norman Clark's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the nature of historical scholarship and historiography.
Sir William Temple (1628 99) was a renowned English diplomat and author, his written works for the most part consisting of short essays. Originally published in 1673, and first published as this Cambridge edition in 1932, the Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands is an ambitious collection covering a diverse range of topics relating to the area. Views are provided on politics, economics and history, together with geology, human character and medicine. The detail and scope of the text confirmed Temple's position as the foremost English authority on Dutch culture. This is a fascinating book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in historiography, historical geography and European history.
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