A discourse of the objects, advantages, and pleasures of science [by H.P. Brougham]. PDF Download

Author: Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.)
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Pages : 68

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Author: Henry Peter Brougham
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781357913977
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Languages : en
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Author: Rebekah Higgitt
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822981793
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Higgitt examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century. She focuses on 1820-1870, a period that saw the creation of the specialized and secularized role of the "scientist." At the same time, researchers gained better access to Newton's archives. These were used both by those who wished to undermine the traditional, idealised depiction of scientific genius and those who felt obliged to defend Newtonian hagiography. Higgitt shows how debates about Newton's character stimulated historical scholarship and led to the development of a new expertise in the history of science.

Author: Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux
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Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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Author: Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 844

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Author: Louise Hickman
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443883034
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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Up until the time of Newton, scientists regarded the understandings of the physical world, at which they were arriving, as glimpses of the working of the Creator’s mind. Thus, the generalisations being formulated about the behaviour of matter – the “Laws of Nature” – were seen as the Creator's injunctions, to created matter, as to how it was to act. They were “laws” in the same sense as laws, Divine or human, about how people should behave: that is why the same word was used for both. And even now, scientific laws are occasionally spoken of as being “obeyed”! However, it is doubtful whether any practising scientist, religious believer or not, now thinks of laws in the way that the word literally implies. How, instead, scientists do or should view scientific laws has been debated since the time of Hume and Kant, and it is a vigorous field of investigation among current philosophers of science. In this book, scientists (physical and biological), historians and students of ideas, all of them theologically informed, tackle this topic from many angles. They do so in relation to the lead public lecture at the conference from which the book stems, given by the eminent and iconoclastic philosopher of science, Professor Nancy Cartwright. She asked the question, “How could laws make things happen?”, and her answer was “They couldn’t!”

Author: Rebekah Higgitt
Publisher: Routledge
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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From Citizens to Subjects challenges the common assertion in historiography that Enlightenment-era centralization and rationalization brought progress and prosperity to all European states, arguing instead that centralization failed to improve the socio-economic position of urban residents in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over a 100-year period. Murphy examines the government of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the several imperial administrations that replaced it after the Partitions, comparing and contrasting their relationships with local citizenry, minority communities, and nobles who enjoyed considerable autonomy in their management of the cities of present-day Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus. He shows how the failure of Enlightenment-era reform was a direct result of the inherent defects in the reformers' visions, rather than from sabotage by shortsighted local residents. Reform in Poland-Lithuania effectively destroyed the existing system of complexities and imprecisions that had allowed certain towns to flourish, while also fostering a culture of self-government and civic republicanism among city citizens of all ranks and religions. By the mid-nineteenth century, the increasingly immobile post-Enlightenment state had transformed activist citizens into largely powerless subjects without conferring the promised material and economic benefits of centralization.

Author: Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux
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Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: Dennis O'Donovan
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Languages : en
Pages : 930

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