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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Encyclopædia Britannica; Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, &c. on a Plan Entirely New
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Encyclopædia Britannica; Or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature ... Illustrated with Near Four Hundred Copperplates
Author: Medical and Philosophical Commentaries
Author: A Treatise on the Influence of the Moon in Fevers
Author: Francis BALFOUR (M.D., of Calcutta.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
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.
Bees
Author: A Catalogue of Books, Ancient and Modern
Author: William CreechPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
System
Author: Clifford SiskinPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262534673
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The role that “system” has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own “computational universe.” A system can describe what we see (the solar system), operate a computer (Windows 10), or be made on a page (the fourteen engineered lines of a sonnet). In this book, Clifford Siskin shows that system is best understood as a genre—a form that works physically in the world to mediate our efforts to understand it. Indeed, many Enlightenment authors published works they called “system” to compete with the essay and the treatise. Drawing on the history of system from Galileo's “message from the stars” and Newton's “system of the world” to today's “computational universe,” Siskin illuminates the role that the genre of system has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge. Previous engagements with systems have involved making them, using them, or imagining better ones. Siskin offers an innovative perspective by investigating system itself. He considers the past and present, moving from the “system of the world” to “a world full of systems.” He traces the turn to system in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and describes this primary form of Enlightenment as a mediator of political, cultural, and social modernity—pointing to the moment when people began to “blame the system” for working both too well (“you can't beat the system”) and not well enough (it always seems to “break down”). Throughout, his touchstones are: what system is and how it has changed; how it has mediated knowledge; and how it has worked in the world.
China in European Encyclopaedias, 1700-1850
Author: Georg LehnerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004206981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This book shows how knowledge about China became part of European general knowledge. It examines English, French, and German encyclopaedias published between 1700 and 1850 and explores the use and presentation of information on China in works of general knowledge. The first chapters explore the origins of early European perceptions of China until 1850, the development of European encyclopaedias, and the sources used for entries on China. The second major part of the book examines the ways in which encyclopaedias presented information on things Chinese (geography, government, economy, history, language and literature, arts and sciences) and how this information was shaped, expanded, perpetuated, revised, and updated.
History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in the United Kingdom and Ireland (1613-2015)
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko AoyagiPublisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1928914764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive index. 333 color photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.