Author: Andrew KippisPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Biographia Britannica: Or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who Have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the Earliest Age, to the Present Times: Collected from The_best Authorities, Printed and Manuscript, and Digested in the Manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary. - Volume the Fisrt [-fifth!. - The Second Edition, with Corrections, Enlargements, and the Addition of New Lives; by Andrew Kippis, D.D. and F.S.A. with Other Gentlemen. - London Printed by W. and A. Strahan
Author: Andrew KippisBiographia Britannica
Author: Biographia Britannica, Or, The Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who Have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the Earliest Ages, Down to the Present Times
Author: Biographia Britannica: Or, The Lives Of The Most Eminent Persons Who Have Flourished in Great Britain And Ireland From The Earliest Ages, To The Present Times
Author: Science in the Public Sphere
Author: Richard YeoPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040246494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The common focus of the essays in this book is the debate on the nature of science - often referred to by contemporaries as ’natural knowledge’ - in Britain during the first half of the 19th century. This was the period before major state support for science allowed its professionalization; indeed, it was a time in which the word ’scientist’ (although coined in 1833 by William Whewell) was not yet widely used. In this context, the questions about the nature of science were part of a public debate that included the following topics: scientific method and intellectual authority, the moral demeanour of the man of science, the hierarchy of specialised scientific disciplines, and the relation with natural theology. These topics were discussed both within scientific circles - in correspondence and meeting of societies - as well as in the wider public sphere constituted by quarterly journals and encyclopaedias. A study of these debates allow us to see how British science of this period began to cast loose some of its earlier theological supports, but still relied on a moral framework to affirm its distinctive method, ethos and cultural value.
Biographia Britannica
Author: Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Author: Isabel RiversPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847144004
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This collection of eight new essays investigates ways in which significant kinds of 18th-century writings were designed and received by different audiences. Rivers explores the answers to certain crucial questions about the contemporary use of books. This new edition contains the results of important new research by well known specialists in the field of book and publishing history over the last two decades.
Librorum Impressorum qui in Museo Britannico Adservantur Catalogus
Author: CATALOGUE OF ENGLISH BOOKS, IN ALL CLASSES OF LITERATURE.
Author: JOHN BOHN, 17, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDENPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Author: John Bohn