Author: Sir John LesliePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heat
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
An Experimental Inquiry Into the Nature and Propagation of Heat
Author: Sir John LesliePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heat
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature and Propagation of Heat
Author: John LesliePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108080170
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Published in 1804, a groundbreaking investigation into the properties of heat by a Scottish scientist with unorthodox religious views.
Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind
Author: Charles Bradford BowPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192865382
Category : Enlightenment
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind recasts the cultivation of a democratic intellect in the late Scottish Enlightenment. It comprises an intellectual history of what was at stake in moral education during a transitional period of revolutionary change between 1772 and 1828. Stewart was a childof the Scottish Enlightenment, who inherited the Scottish philosophical tradition of teaching metaphysics as moral philosophy from the tuition of Adam Ferguson and Thomas Reid. But the Scottish Enlightenment intellectual culture of his youth changed in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Stewartsustained the Scottish school of philosophy by transforming how it was taught as professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His elementary system of moral education fostered an empire of the mind in the universal pursuit of happiness. The democratization of Stewart's didacticEnlightenment--the instruction of moral improvement--in a globalizing, interconnected nineteenth-century knowledge economy is examined in this book.
The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson Vol 2
Author: Vincenzo MerollePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040250254
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
This Pickering edition of Adam Ferguson's correspondence contains over 400 letters, most of which have never before been published. The correspondence includes letters between Ferguson and Adam Smith, David Hume and Alexander Carlyle and many other central figures of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Carlyle and Scottish Thought
Author: R. JessopPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230371477
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book initiates a new interdisciplinary approach in the literary and philosophical treatment of Carlyle, challenging the long-held notion that his work was solely influenced by German idealism. Tracing Carlyle's intellectual inheritance through Hume, Reid, and Hamilton, Jessop argues that Carlyle was crucially influenced by Scottish philosophy and that this philosophical discourse can in turn be used to inform critical readings of his texts. The book will be of interest to readers of Carlyle, philosophers, and specialists in the literature and intellectual history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Governing the Environment in the Early Modern World
Author: Sara MigliettiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317200284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Throughout the early modern period, scientific debate and governmental action became increasingly preoccupied with the environment, generating discussion across Europe and the wider world as to how to improve land and climate for human benefit. This discourse eventually promoted the reconsideration of long-held beliefs about the role of climate in upholding the social order, driving economies and affecting public health. Governing the Environment in the Early Modern World explores the relationship between cultural perceptions of the environment and practical attempts at environmental regulation and change between 1500 and 1800. Taking a cultural and intellectual approach to early modern environmental governance, this edited collection combines an interpretative perspective with new insights into a period largely unfamiliar to environmental historians. Using a rich and multifaceted narrative, this book offers an understanding as to how efforts to enhance productive aspects of the environment were both led by and contributed to new conceptualisations of the role of ‘nature’ in human society. This book offers a cultural and intellectual approach to early modern environmental history and will be of special interest to environmental, cultural and intellectual historians, as well as anyone with an interest in the culture and politics of environmental governance.
The Chemical Catechism
Author: Samuel ParkesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
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