Author: Samuel Paterson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Entire and Valuable Collection of Minerals, Ores, Fossils, Earths, Petrefactions, Gems, and Other Stones, Made in Great Britain and Ireland, by Mr. David Main, Deceased. In which are Included, Several Specimens of Foreign Silver, and Other Ores, which Wil be Sold by Auction, by Samuel Paterson, at Essex-House, Essex-Street, in the Strand, on Wednesday the 9th Inst. and the Three Following Days. ... Catalogues to be Had of Mr. Vaillant, Bookseller in the Strand, R. Main, Bookseller in St. James Street, and at the Place of Sale. Commissions for Any O the Articles in this Collection from Those who Cannot Attend the Sale, Will be Executed by Samuel Paterson, at Essex-House, Or R. Main, in St. James's Street
The Language of Mineralogy
Author: Matthew D. Eddy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351887149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Classification is an important part of science, yet the specific methods used to construct Enlightenment systems of natural history have proven to be the bĂȘte noir of studies of eighteenth-century culture. One reason that systematic classification has received so little attention is that natural history was an extremely diverse subject which appealed to a wide range of practitioners, including wealthy patrons, professionals, and educators. In order to show how the classification practices of a defined institutional setting enabled naturalists to create systems of natural history, this book focuses on developments at Edinburgh's medical school, one of Europe's leading medical programs. In particular, it concentrates on one of Scotland's most influential Enlightenment naturalists, Rev Dr John Walker, the professor of natural history at the school from 1779 to 1803. Walker was a traveller, cleric, author and advisor to extremely powerful aristocratic and government patrons, as well as teacher to hundreds of students, some of whom would go on to become influential industrialists, scientists, physicians and politicians. This book explains how Walker used his networks of patrons and early training in chemistry to become an eighteenth-century naturalist. Walker's mineralogy was based firmly in chemistry, an approach common in Edinburgh's medical school, but a connection that has been generally overlooked in the history of British geology. By explicitly connecting eighteenth-century geology to the chemistry being taught in medical settings, this book offers a dynamic new interpretation of the nascent earth sciences as they were practiced in Enlightenment Britain. Because of Walker's influence on his many students, the book also provides a unique insight into how many of Britain's leading Regency and Victorian intellectuals were taught to think about the composition and structure of the material world.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351887149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Classification is an important part of science, yet the specific methods used to construct Enlightenment systems of natural history have proven to be the bĂȘte noir of studies of eighteenth-century culture. One reason that systematic classification has received so little attention is that natural history was an extremely diverse subject which appealed to a wide range of practitioners, including wealthy patrons, professionals, and educators. In order to show how the classification practices of a defined institutional setting enabled naturalists to create systems of natural history, this book focuses on developments at Edinburgh's medical school, one of Europe's leading medical programs. In particular, it concentrates on one of Scotland's most influential Enlightenment naturalists, Rev Dr John Walker, the professor of natural history at the school from 1779 to 1803. Walker was a traveller, cleric, author and advisor to extremely powerful aristocratic and government patrons, as well as teacher to hundreds of students, some of whom would go on to become influential industrialists, scientists, physicians and politicians. This book explains how Walker used his networks of patrons and early training in chemistry to become an eighteenth-century naturalist. Walker's mineralogy was based firmly in chemistry, an approach common in Edinburgh's medical school, but a connection that has been generally overlooked in the history of British geology. By explicitly connecting eighteenth-century geology to the chemistry being taught in medical settings, this book offers a dynamic new interpretation of the nascent earth sciences as they were practiced in Enlightenment Britain. Because of Walker's influence on his many students, the book also provides a unique insight into how many of Britain's leading Regency and Victorian intellectuals were taught to think about the composition and structure of the material world.
Buffon's Natural History: History of man continued
Author: Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Scenes of Inquiry
Author: Nicholas Jardine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198250395
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This text advocates a radical shift of concern in philosophical, historical, and sociological studies of the sciences, from answers and doctrines to questions and problems, and explores the consequences of such a shift.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198250395
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This text advocates a radical shift of concern in philosophical, historical, and sociological studies of the sciences, from answers and doctrines to questions and problems, and explores the consequences of such a shift.
The English Spa, 1560-1815
Author: Phyllis May Hembry
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838633915
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Beginning in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, members of the English nobility and gentry made a practice of taking relaxation at the country's inland spas. This account shows the spas to have been not only centers of healing and recreating but also venues of intrigue extending to political, religious, economic, and social issues.
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838633915
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Beginning in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, members of the English nobility and gentry made a practice of taking relaxation at the country's inland spas. This account shows the spas to have been not only centers of healing and recreating but also venues of intrigue extending to political, religious, economic, and social issues.
Essays on Natural History and Rural Economy
Author: John Walker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Thinking about the Earth
Author: David Roger Oldroyd
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674883826
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Thinking about the Earth is a history of the geological tradition of Western science. David Oldroyd traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth, map-work, chemical analyses of rocks and minerals, geomorphology, experimental petrology, seismology, theories of mountain building, and geochemistry.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674883826
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Thinking about the Earth is a history of the geological tradition of Western science. David Oldroyd traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth, map-work, chemical analyses of rocks and minerals, geomorphology, experimental petrology, seismology, theories of mountain building, and geochemistry.
Sciences of the Earth
Author: David Roger Oldroyd
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Sciences of the Earth first presents a connected series of papers on the history of mineralogy in relation to chemistry, from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 19th century. It considers some of the important philosophical ideas that underpinned early thinking about minerals and earths, and also the practicalities of mineral analysis. Other papers in the volume examine the influence of historicist thinking in the emergence of historical geology; the application of Michel Foucault's ideas to the mineral kingdom; the geological ideas of Robert Hooke, with reference to his views on scientific method; the 'problem' of Whig history of science, considering as example Archibald Geikie's work as historian of geology; and the application of 'grid/group' theory to early 19th-century English geology. To open, there is a paper dealing with a Roman theory of volcanic activity, little known to historians of science.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Sciences of the Earth first presents a connected series of papers on the history of mineralogy in relation to chemistry, from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 19th century. It considers some of the important philosophical ideas that underpinned early thinking about minerals and earths, and also the practicalities of mineral analysis. Other papers in the volume examine the influence of historicist thinking in the emergence of historical geology; the application of Michel Foucault's ideas to the mineral kingdom; the geological ideas of Robert Hooke, with reference to his views on scientific method; the 'problem' of Whig history of science, considering as example Archibald Geikie's work as historian of geology; and the application of 'grid/group' theory to early 19th-century English geology. To open, there is a paper dealing with a Roman theory of volcanic activity, little known to historians of science.
Elements of Agriculture
Historical Studies in the Language of Chemistry
Author: Maurice P. Crosland
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486438023
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Appropriate for undergraduate and graduate-level courses, this volume covers language of alchemy, early chemical terminology, systematic nomenclature, chemical symbolism, and language of organic chemistry. "Authoritative." ? Isis. 1962 edition.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486438023
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Appropriate for undergraduate and graduate-level courses, this volume covers language of alchemy, early chemical terminology, systematic nomenclature, chemical symbolism, and language of organic chemistry. "Authoritative." ? Isis. 1962 edition.