1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814651203321

Autore

Mackenzie Caroline K.

Titolo

Culture and society at Lullingstone Roman Villa / / Caroline K. Mackenzie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Summertown, Oxford : , : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-78969-291-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, plans

Collana

Archaeopress Archaeology

Disciplina

942.23

Soggetti

Excavations (Archaeology) - England - Kent

Pictorial works.

Lullingstone Roman Villa Site (England)

Lullingstone Roman Villa Site (England) Pictorial works

Kent (Engliand) Antiquities, Roman

Kent (England) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-48).

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248182403316

Autore

Dear Peter <1958->

Titolo

Revolutionizing the sciences : European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 / / Peter Dear

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-691-14206-8

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 203 p. ) : ill. ;

Soggetti

Science - Europe - History

Science - Social aspects - History

Science and civilization - History

Science - History - Europe

Physical Sciences & Mathematics

Sciences - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Natural philosophy and instrumentality -- "What was worth knowing" in 1500 -- Humanism and ancient wisdom: how to learn things in the sixteenth century -- The alchemist, the craftsman, and the scholar -- Mathematics challenges philosophy: Galileo, Kepler, and the mathematical practitioners -- Mechanism and corpuscles : Descartes builds a universe -- Extra-curricular activities: new homes for natural knowledge -- Experiment: how to learn things about nature in the seventeenth century -- Cartesians and Newtonians -- Conclusion: what was worth knowing by the eighteenth century?