Author: Stephen HalesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Vegetable Staticks: or, an account of some statical experiments on the Sap in Vegetables ... Also, a specimen of an attempt to analyse the Air
Author: Stephen HalesVegetable Staticks : Or, an Account of Some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables : Being an Essay Towards a Natural History of Vegetation. Also, a Specimen of an Attempt to Analyse the Air, by a Great Variety of Chymio-statical Experiments ; which Were Read at Several Meetings Before the Royal Society ....
Author: Stephen HalesCatalogue of the Scientific Books in the Library of the Royal Society
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
Book Description
Women, Philosophy and Science
Author: Sabrina EbbersmeyerPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030445488
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This book sheds light on the originality and historical significance of women’s philosophical, moral, political and scientific ideas in Italy and early modern Europe. Divided into three sections, it starts by discussing the women philosophers’ engagement with the classical inheritance with regard to the works of Moderata Fonte, Tullia d'Aragona and Anne Conway. The next section examines the relationship between women philosophers and the new philosophy of nature, focusing on the connections between female thought and the new seventeenth- and eighteenth-century science, and discussing the work of Camilla Erculiani, Margherita Sarocchi, Margaret Cavendish, Mariangela Ardinghelli, Teresa Ciceri, Candida Lena Perpenti, and Alessandro Volta. The final section presents male philosophers’ perspectives on the role of women, discussing the place of women in the work of Giordano Bruno, Poulain de la Barre and the theories of Hobbes and Rawls. By exploring these women philosophers, writers and translators, the book offers a re-examination of the early modern thinking of and about women in Italy.
Statical Essays
Author: Stephen HalesBibliotheca Chemico-mathematica
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Mechanism and Materialism
Author: Robert E. SchofieldPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400871026
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Robert Schofield explores the rational elements of British experimental natural philosophy in the 18th century by tracing the influence of two opposing concepts of the nature of matter and its action—mechanism and materialism. Both concepts rested on the Newtonian interpretation of their proponents, although each developed more or less independently. By integrating the developments in all the areas of experimental natural philosophy, describing their connections and the influences of Continental science, natural theology, and to a lesser degree social and institutional changes, the author demonstrates that mechanistic concepts dominated interpretations from about 1687 to 1740, when they were replaced by materialistic concepts. A revival of the mechanistic approach early in the next century made England a fertile field for ideas on the dynamic interaction of forces. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Land Air Sea
Author: Jennifer FerngPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004460829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Land Air Sea: Architecture and Environment in the Early Modern Era positions the long Renaissance and eighteenth century as being vital for understanding how many of the concerns present in contemporary debates on climate change and sustainability originated in earlier centuries. Traversing three physical and intellectual domains, Land Air Sea consists of case studies examining how questions of environmentalism were formulated in early modern architecture and the built environment. Addressing emergent technologies, indigenous cultural beliefs, natural philosophy, and political statecraft, this book aims to recast our modernist conceptions of what buildings are by uncovering early modern epistemologies that redefined human impact on the habitable world.
Plants in 16th and 17th Century
Author: Fabrizio BaldassarriPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110739933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement with the plant world emerged. This volume follows intertwined strands in the study of plants, examining newly introduced species that captured physicians' curiosity, expanded their therapeutic arsenal, and challenged their long-held medical theories. The development of herbaria, the creation of botanical gardens, and the inspection of plants contributed to a new understanding of the vegetal world. Increased attention to plants led to account for their therapeutic virtues, to test and produce new drugs, to recognize the physical properties of plants, and to develop a new plant science and medicine.
Literature and Science, 1660-1834, Part II vol 8
Author: Judith HawleyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040247938
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This volume reproduces primary texts which embody the polymathic nature of the literature of science, and provides editorial overviews and extensive references, to provide a resource for specialized academics and researchers with a broad cultural interest in the long 18th century.