1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008805740403321

Autore

Pigors, Paul

Titolo

Personnel administration : a point of view and a method / Paul Pigors, Charles A. Meyers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : McGraw-Hill book co, 1965

Edizione

[5. ed]

Descrizione fisica

837 p. ; 23 cm

Disciplina

342

Locazione

FGBC

Collocazione

VI C 213

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910838356403321

Autore

McOuat Gordon

Titolo

Spaces of Enlightenment Science

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : BRILL, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

90-04-50122-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages)

Collana

Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy

Altri autori (Persone)

StewartLarry

Disciplina

509.409/03

Soggetti

Science - Europe - History - 17th century

Science - Europe - History - 18th century

Science rooms and equipment - Europe - History

Laboratories - Europe - History

Knowledge, Sociology of - History

Enlightenment - Europe

Space

Place (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Gordon McOuat and Larry Stew art -- Escape from Capnopolis : William Stukeley's 'True academick life' / Rob Iliffe -- Something is in the air : experimental spaces, analogical reasoning, and the problem of putrefaction in Enlightenment Europe / Margaret Carlyle and Victor D. Boantza -- Instrument makers, shops, and expertise in eighteenth-century London / Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin -- 'My collection in all its branches' : the imagined space of early modern scientific correspondence / Alice Marples -- The dissemination of chemical theory and chemical instruments through cabinets, laboratories, lecture theatres and museums during the Napoleonic Wars / Trevor H. Levere -- The public space of knowledge and the public sphere of science / Marie Thébaud-Sorger -- The space between : James Dinwiddie and the transit of science, 1760-1815 / Larry Stewart -- "Both by sea and land" : William Whiston, longitude, and the measurement of space / Simon Werrett.

Sommario/riassunto

"Where did we do science in the Enlightenment and why? This volume brings together leading historians of Early Modern science to explore the places, spaces, and exchanges of Enlightenment knowledge production. Adding to our understanding of the "geographies of knowledge", it examines the relationship between "space" and "place", institutions, "objects", and "ideas", showing the ways in which the location of science really matters"--