Author: John Birch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
An Appeal to the Public on the Hazard and Peril of Vaccination, Otherwise Cow Pox, by the Late John Birch Esq. Together with His Serious Reasons for Uniformly Objecting to Vaccination; and Other Tracts ... The Third Edition. [Edited by Penelope Birch.]
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
New English Canaan of Thomas Morton
Author: Thomas Morton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Recollections of Samuel Breck
Author: Samuel Breck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Christmas: its origin and associations
Author: William Francis Dawson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The English in the West Indies
Author: James Anthony Froude
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN:
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN:
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Valley of Kashmir
Author: Walter R. Lawrence
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120616301
Category : Jammu and Kashmir (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
(Reprint London 1895 edn.)
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120616301
Category : Jammu and Kashmir (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
(Reprint London 1895 edn.)
Devonshire Characters and Strange Events
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Solomon's Child
Author: William Lynch
Publisher:
ISBN: 0804732914
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book challenges the accepted view of the early Royal Society of London that holds that its fellows did not seriously attempt to implement Francis Bacon’s program for the methodological reform of the sciences. Instead, the book shows that Bacon’s program shaped the Society’s earliest work in important, if often contradictory, ways as fellows wedded Bacon’s ideas to their various interests and problem areas. Developing Bacon’s program in different directions resulted in a richer understanding of his method than the undirected empiricism often associated with his name. The author demonstrates that Bacon’s call for a focus on “things themselves” was built upon three distinct images of objects of knowledge, in opposition to recent accounts that focus on the collective witnessing of matters of fact. He identifies at the core of Bacon’s method a threefold metaphorical ontology of objects of knowledge and corresponding objectivities. The book reveals a picture of the Royal Society as more sophisticated and unified than previously depicted, while simultaneously demonstrating how the fellows’ development of Bacon’s legacy ultimately pulled in different directions. Specular objects of knowledge privileged passive observation and justified an empiricist objectivity. Manipulated objects of art or manual objects emphasized an engaged, constructivist objectivity in which knowing is doing. And, a vision of underlying forms as generative objects of knowledge, which could be combined like letters of the alphabet to produce phenomena at will, defined a theoretical concept of objectivity. These components of Bacon’s method inform in varying ways the early publications of the Royal Society by John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, John Wilkins, Thomas Sprat, and John Graunt, which are examined in detail to demonstrate the collective negotiation of an ambitious inductive program employing hypotheses, active powers, and the disciplined use of analogy. Examining the Royal Society’s activity in the areas of horticulture, experimentation, language reform, cultural criticism, and political arithmetic, the author synthesizes philosophical and sociological approaches to science in developing a new understanding of the Royal Society and its legacy for science, culture, and politics.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0804732914
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book challenges the accepted view of the early Royal Society of London that holds that its fellows did not seriously attempt to implement Francis Bacon’s program for the methodological reform of the sciences. Instead, the book shows that Bacon’s program shaped the Society’s earliest work in important, if often contradictory, ways as fellows wedded Bacon’s ideas to their various interests and problem areas. Developing Bacon’s program in different directions resulted in a richer understanding of his method than the undirected empiricism often associated with his name. The author demonstrates that Bacon’s call for a focus on “things themselves” was built upon three distinct images of objects of knowledge, in opposition to recent accounts that focus on the collective witnessing of matters of fact. He identifies at the core of Bacon’s method a threefold metaphorical ontology of objects of knowledge and corresponding objectivities. The book reveals a picture of the Royal Society as more sophisticated and unified than previously depicted, while simultaneously demonstrating how the fellows’ development of Bacon’s legacy ultimately pulled in different directions. Specular objects of knowledge privileged passive observation and justified an empiricist objectivity. Manipulated objects of art or manual objects emphasized an engaged, constructivist objectivity in which knowing is doing. And, a vision of underlying forms as generative objects of knowledge, which could be combined like letters of the alphabet to produce phenomena at will, defined a theoretical concept of objectivity. These components of Bacon’s method inform in varying ways the early publications of the Royal Society by John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, John Wilkins, Thomas Sprat, and John Graunt, which are examined in detail to demonstrate the collective negotiation of an ambitious inductive program employing hypotheses, active powers, and the disciplined use of analogy. Examining the Royal Society’s activity in the areas of horticulture, experimentation, language reform, cultural criticism, and political arithmetic, the author synthesizes philosophical and sociological approaches to science in developing a new understanding of the Royal Society and its legacy for science, culture, and politics.
Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne
Author: John Ashton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description