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Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant : Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century / / edited by Wolfgang Lefèvre
| Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant : Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century / / edited by Wolfgang Lefèvre |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2023] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (397 pages) |
| Disciplina | 501 |
| Collana | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Series |
| Soggetto topico | Philosophy and science |
| ISBN | 3-031-34340-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface to the 2nd Edition -- Introduction -- Contents -- Part I: Seismic Vibrations in Metaphysics -- Chapter 1: Disciplinary Transformations in the Age of Newton: The Case of Metaphysics -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Speculative Philosophy in the Peripatetic Tradition -- 1.3 Newton and Leibniz -- 1.4 Locke and Berkeley -- 1.5 Metaphysics in the Public Domain in Mid-century Britain and Germany -- 1.6 Hume -- 1.7 Metaphysics and the Physicians: William Cullen -- 1.8 The Kantian Turn -- References -- Part II: Metaphysics and the Analytical Method -- Chapter 2: Leibniz' Concept of Possible Worlds and the Analysis of Motion in Eighteenth-Century Physics -- 2.1 The Year 1686 -- 2.2 Individual Substance and World -- 2.3 Causality and Finality in Leibniz' Physics -- 2.4 1732: The Birth-Certificate of Maupertuis' Ideas -- 2.5 The Least Action Quantity Principle -- 2.6 The Essay on Cosmology -- 2.7 A Final View to Euler -- 2.8 A Priority Problem and Its Recent Discussion -- 2.9 Resume -- References -- Chapter 3: The Limits of Intelligibility: The Status of Physical Science in D'Alembert's Philosophy -- 3.1 Abstraction -- 3.2 Restoration -- 3.3 Properties -- 3.4 Simplicity -- 3.5 Winds -- 3.6 Essences -- 3.7 Impenetrability -- 3.8 Necessity -- 3.9 Springs and Other Gaps -- 3.10 Well-Known Facts About Forces -- 3.11 Attraction as a Last Recourse -- 3.12 Fluids -- 3.13 Fluids as Systems: D'Alembert's Principle -- 3.14 The Privilege of Destruction -- 3.15 Broken Branches -- References -- Chapter 4: "In Nature as in Geometry": Du Châtelet and the Post-Newtonian Debate on the Physical Significance of Mathematical Objects -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Ambivalent Reception of Newton's Mathematical Physics -- 4.3 Du Châtelet on the Metaphysics of Mathematical Objects -- 4.3.1 Mathematical Objects and Metaphysical Idealism.
4.3.2 The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Magnitude -- 4.3.3 The Power of Abstraction -- 4.3.4 Abstraction and Fictions -- 4.4 Du Châtelet's Defense of Inferences from Mathematics to Material Nature -- 4.4.1 Mathematical Fictions and Approximate Truth -- 4.4.2 From Mathematical to Physical Continuity -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Order of Nature and Orders of Science -- 5.1 Preliminaries: Three Points of Departure and One Aim -- 5.1.1 'Semantical Ladenness' of Mathematics -- 5.1.2 Euclideanism -- 5.1.3 Orders of Science -- 5.1.4 Understanding the Change of Concepts of Science -- 5.2 Mechanical Euclideanism: The Case of Newton's Principia -- 5.2.1 Mechanical Euclideanism -- 5.2.2 Axiomatic Structure and Empiristic Methodology -- 5.2.3 Newton's Euclideanism -- 5.3 Newtonian and Analytical Perspectives: Euler's Program of Rational Mechanics -- 5.3.1 'Synthetical' Beginnings of Analytical Mechanics -- 5.3.2 'Newtonian' Axiomatisation Without Newtonian Ontology -- 5.3.3 'Inflation of Principles' and Metatheoretical 'Sliding of the Center of Gravity' -- 5.3.4 Analytical Principles of Mechanics -- 5.4 The Edge of Certainty: Lagrange's Analytical Mechanics -- 5.4.1 Changing Principles and Concepts -- 5.4.2 No Geometry, No Methodology, No (Explicit) Scientific Metaphysics: The New Meaning of 'Analytical' -- 5.4.3 Loss of Evidence: 'Rubber Euclideanism' -- 5.5 Kant and Eighteenth-Century Rational Mechanics: Two Projections -- 5.5.1 The 'Synthetical' Projection: Metaphysical Foundations -- 5.5.2 The 'Analytical' Projection: Critique of Judgement -- 5.6 Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Avenues of Newtonianism -- Chapter 6: Samuel Clarke's Annotations in Jacques Rohault's Traité de Physique, and How They Contributed to Popularising Newton's Physics -- 6.1 Newton's Physics Disseminated by a Cartesian Textbook. 6.2 Jacques Rohault and His Traité de Physique -- 6.3 Rohault's Traité Translated and Annotated by Samuel Clarke -- 6.3.1 Hoadley's Account -- 6.3.2 Whiston's Account -- 6.3.3 A Document Unparalleled in the History of Physics -- 6.4 The Structure of Rohault's Traité -- 6.4.1 Matter, Inertia, and Conservation of the Quantity of Motion -- 6.4.2 Vacuum and Elements -- 6.4.3 Rules of Collision -- 6.4.4 Attractive and Repulsive Forces -- 6.4.5 Light and Colour -- 6.4.6 Planetary Motion and Free Fall -- 6.5 Charles Morgan's Annotations -- References -- Chapter 7: Kant on Extension and Force: Critical Appropriations of Leibniz and Newton -- 7.1 Newton, Locke, Descartes, and Leibniz on Extension -- 7.1.1 Newton, Locke, and Descartes on Extension as a Primitive -- 7.1.2 Leibniz on Extension -- 7.2 Kant's Objections to Extension as Primitive -- 7.2.1 Kant's Rejection of Leibniz's Criticisms of Extension as a Primitive -- 7.2.2 Kant's Arguments Against Atomism -- 7.3 Force and Causality -- 7.3.1 Leibniz on Force -- 7.3.2 Kant on Force -- 7.4 Brief Methodological Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Scotland's Philosophico-Chemical Physics -- 8.1 Joseph Black and Thomas Reid in the 1760s -- 8.2 John Anderson and John Robison, Circa 1780 -- 8.3 Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Can Matter Think? -- Chapter 9: Materialistic Theories of Mind and Brain -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Can Matter Think? -- 9.3 The Question of the Soul -- 9.4 The Workings of the Brain -- 9.5 Conclusion -- Afterword 2022 -- References -- Chapter 10: Kant's Second Paralogism in Context: The Critique of Pure Reason on Whether Matter Can Think -- 10.1 The Paralogism: Its Formal Structure -- 10.2 The Context: Kant and His Opponents -- 10.3 Conclusion -- Postscript (2022): Materialism and Anti-materialism in the Eighteenth Century -- References -- Part V: Metaphysics and Natural History. Chapter 11: Kant's Universal Natural History and Analogical Reasoning in Cosmology -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Kant's Analogical Method in the Universal Natural History -- 11.3 Analogical Reasoning: Some Historical Context -- 11.4 Kant's Theory of Analogy -- 11.5 Kant's Cosmological Analogy -- 11.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Natural or Artificial Systems? The Eighteenth-Century Controversy on Classification of Animals and Plants and Its Philosophical Contexts -- 12.1 Eighteenth-Century Classification as a Double-Faced Enterprise -- 12.2 Are Systems as Such Unnatural? -- 12.3 Method and Form I - Is the Tree of Porphyry Natural? -- 12.4 Method and Form II - Method Versus System -- 12.5 Biological Content I - Resemblance of Structure -- 12.6 Biological Content II - Growing Tensions -- 12.6.1 Natural Groups -- 12.6.2 Buffon's Species Concept -- 12.6.3 From Structure to Organisation -- 12.7 Prospects: A Meaningless Nature -- References -- Part VI: Looking Back and Ahead -- Chapter 13: Beyond Newton, Leibniz and Kant: Insufficient Foundations, 1687-1786 -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Background Distinctions -- 13.3 The Shape of Mechanics After 1730 -- 13.4 Sufficient Foundations, 1760-1830 -- 13.5 Insufficient Foundations: Laws -- 13.6 Insufficient Foundations: Matter -- 13.7 Some Morals -- References -- Appendices -- Appendix I: Newton's Scholia from David Gregory's Estate on the Propositions IV Through IX Book III of His Principia -- The Sources for Our Edition -- About the English Translation -- Abbreviations Used -- Newton's Scholia -- Newton's Excerpts from Macrobius' Commentary on Clcero's Dream of Sclplo -- Newton's Excerpts from Macrobius' Commentary on Cicero's Dream -- Remarks on Newton's Scholia -- References. Appendix II: The Concepts of Immanuel Kant's Natural Philosophy (1747-1780): A Database Rendering Their Explicit and Implicit Networks -- Networks of Concepts and Their Representation -- Kant's Natural Philosophy -- Explicit and Implicit Networks Among Concepts -- The Form of Representation -- Aspects of Kant's Theory of Matter as Rendered in the Database -- The Databases -- "Begriffe" -- Rendering Networks of Concepts -- Context I - The Location of Concepts in Kant -- Context II - The Location of Concepts in Contemporary Science -- Grouping According to Fields of Knowledge -- The Additional Databases. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910739420303321 |
| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2023] | ||
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Creating shapes in civil and naval architecture [[electronic resource] ] : a cross-disciplinary comparison / / edited by Horst Nowacki and Wolfgang Lefèvre
| Creating shapes in civil and naval architecture [[electronic resource] ] : a cross-disciplinary comparison / / edited by Horst Nowacki and Wolfgang Lefèvre |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (470 p.) |
| Disciplina | 623.8/1 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NowackiH (Horst)
LefèvreWolfgang <1941-> |
| Collana | History of science and medicine library |
| Soggetto topico |
Naval architecture - Design and construction - History
Hulls (Naval architecture) - Design and construction - History Shape theory (Topology) Structural optimization Shipbuilding - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-60172-5
9786612601729 90-474-2691-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Materials / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre -- Colour Plates I–LII / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre -- Chapter One. Shape Creation Knowledge In Civil And Naval Architecture / Horst Nowacki -- Chapter Two. On The Use Of Design In Ancient Mediterranean Ship Construction / Patrice Pomey -- Chapter Three. Were The Hittites Able To Build A Replica Of An Egyptian Ship According To Their Own Drawings? / Lucien Basch -- Chapter Four. Markings And Pegs: Clues To Geometrical Procedures Of Roman Naval Architecture? / Ronald Bockius -- Chapter Five. Ancient Greek And Roman Architects’ Approach To Curvature — The Corinthian Capital, Entasis And Amphitheaters / Mark Wilson Jones -- Chapter Six. "To Design" And "To Build" Mediaeval Ships (Fifth To Fifteenth Centuries) — The Application Of Knowledge Held In Common With Civil Architecture, Or In Isolation? / Eric Rieth -- Chapter Seven. Boat And Boat House. The Conceptional Origins Of Clinker Boats And Boat-Shaped Halls Of The Fourth To Eleventh Centuries In Scandinavia / Ole Crumlin-Pedersen -- Chapter Eight. Gothic And Renaissance Design Strategies In Stonecutting / Enrique Rabasa Díaz and José Calvo López -- Chapter Nine. On Late-Gothic Vault Geometry / Jos Tomlow -- Chapter Ten. The Shipbuilding Text Of Michael Of Rhodes / David Mcgee -- Chapter Eleven. Naval Architecture Digitalized Introducing Arithmetic And Geometry Into Late Mediaeval Shipwrightry / Ulrich Alertz -- Chapter Twelve. Pregnant Columns. From Word To Shape / Antonio Becchi -- Chapter Thirteen. From One Curve To Another Or The Problem Of Changing Coordinates In Stereotomic Layouts / Joël Sakarovitch -- Chapter Fourteen. The Squinch Of Anet / Martina Lenz -- Conclusions / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre -- Appendices / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre -- Appendix A. From Words To Technical Practices: Moulds And Naval Architecture In The Middle Ages / Eric Rieth -- Appendix B. The Rare Traces Of Constructional Procedures In "Practical Geometries" / Jens Høyrup -- Appendix C. Draughting Curves Used In Ship Design / Jobst Lessenich -- Appendix D. Bibliographical Notes On Historical Metrology / Compiled and Jobst Lessenich -- Index / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458850603321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Creating shapes in civil and naval architecture : a cross-disciplinary comparison / / editors, Horst Nowacki, Wolfgang Lefèvre
| Creating shapes in civil and naval architecture : a cross-disciplinary comparison / / editors, Horst Nowacki, Wolfgang Lefèvre |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (470 pages) : illustrations, plates |
| Disciplina | 623.8/1 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NowackiH (Horst)
LefèvreWolfgang <1941-> |
| Collana | History of science and medicine library |
| Soggetto topico |
Naval architecture - Design and construction - History
Hulls (Naval architecture) - Design and construction - History Shape theory (Topology) Structural optimization Shipbuilding - History |
| ISBN |
1-282-60172-5
9786612601729 90-474-2691-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Materials / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre -- Colour Plates I–LII / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre -- Chapter One. Shape Creation Knowledge In Civil And Naval Architecture / Horst Nowacki -- Chapter Two. On The Use Of Design In Ancient Mediterranean Ship Construction / Patrice Pomey -- Chapter Three. Were The Hittites Able To Build A Replica Of An Egyptian Ship According To Their Own Drawings? / Lucien Basch -- Chapter Four. Markings And Pegs: Clues To Geometrical Procedures Of Roman Naval Architecture? / Ronald Bockius -- Chapter Five. Ancient Greek And Roman Architects’ Approach To Curvature — The Corinthian Capital, Entasis And Amphitheaters / Mark Wilson Jones -- Chapter Six. "To Design" And "To Build" Mediaeval Ships (Fifth To Fifteenth Centuries) — The Application Of Knowledge Held In Common With Civil Architecture, Or In Isolation? / Eric Rieth -- Chapter Seven. Boat And Boat House. The Conceptional Origins Of Clinker Boats And Boat-Shaped Halls Of The Fourth To Eleventh Centuries In Scandinavia / Ole Crumlin-Pedersen -- Chapter Eight. Gothic And Renaissance Design Strategies In Stonecutting / Enrique Rabasa Díaz and José Calvo López -- Chapter Nine. On Late-Gothic Vault Geometry / Jos Tomlow -- Chapter Ten. The Shipbuilding Text Of Michael Of Rhodes / David Mcgee -- Chapter Eleven. Naval Architecture Digitalized Introducing Arithmetic And Geometry Into Late Mediaeval Shipwrightry / Ulrich Alertz -- Chapter Twelve. Pregnant Columns. From Word To Shape / Antonio Becchi -- Chapter Thirteen. From One Curve To Another Or The Problem Of Changing Coordinates In Stereotomic Layouts / Joël Sakarovitch -- Chapter Fourteen. The Squinch Of Anet / Martina Lenz -- Conclusions / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre -- Appendices / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre -- Appendix A. From Words To Technical Practices: Moulds And Naval Architecture In The Middle Ages / Eric Rieth -- Appendix B. The Rare Traces Of Constructional Procedures In "Practical Geometries" / Jens Høyrup -- Appendix C. Draughting Curves Used In Ship Design / Jobst Lessenich -- Appendix D. Bibliographical Notes On Historical Metrology / Compiled and Jobst Lessenich -- Index / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792450403321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Creating shapes in civil and naval architecture : a cross-disciplinary comparison / / editors, Horst Nowacki, Wolfgang Lefèvre
| Creating shapes in civil and naval architecture : a cross-disciplinary comparison / / editors, Horst Nowacki, Wolfgang Lefèvre |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (470 pages) : illustrations, plates |
| Disciplina | 623.8/1 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NowackiH (Horst)
LefèvreWolfgang <1941-> |
| Collana | History of science and medicine library |
| Soggetto topico |
Naval architecture - Design and construction - History
Hulls (Naval architecture) - Design and construction - History Shape theory (Topology) Structural optimization Shipbuilding - History |
| ISBN |
1-282-60172-5
9786612601729 90-474-2691-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Materials / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre -- Colour Plates I–LII / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre -- Chapter One. Shape Creation Knowledge In Civil And Naval Architecture / Horst Nowacki -- Chapter Two. On The Use Of Design In Ancient Mediterranean Ship Construction / Patrice Pomey -- Chapter Three. Were The Hittites Able To Build A Replica Of An Egyptian Ship According To Their Own Drawings? / Lucien Basch -- Chapter Four. Markings And Pegs: Clues To Geometrical Procedures Of Roman Naval Architecture? / Ronald Bockius -- Chapter Five. Ancient Greek And Roman Architects’ Approach To Curvature — The Corinthian Capital, Entasis And Amphitheaters / Mark Wilson Jones -- Chapter Six. "To Design" And "To Build" Mediaeval Ships (Fifth To Fifteenth Centuries) — The Application Of Knowledge Held In Common With Civil Architecture, Or In Isolation? / Eric Rieth -- Chapter Seven. Boat And Boat House. The Conceptional Origins Of Clinker Boats And Boat-Shaped Halls Of The Fourth To Eleventh Centuries In Scandinavia / Ole Crumlin-Pedersen -- Chapter Eight. Gothic And Renaissance Design Strategies In Stonecutting / Enrique Rabasa Díaz and José Calvo López -- Chapter Nine. On Late-Gothic Vault Geometry / Jos Tomlow -- Chapter Ten. The Shipbuilding Text Of Michael Of Rhodes / David Mcgee -- Chapter Eleven. Naval Architecture Digitalized Introducing Arithmetic And Geometry Into Late Mediaeval Shipwrightry / Ulrich Alertz -- Chapter Twelve. Pregnant Columns. From Word To Shape / Antonio Becchi -- Chapter Thirteen. From One Curve To Another Or The Problem Of Changing Coordinates In Stereotomic Layouts / Joël Sakarovitch -- Chapter Fourteen. The Squinch Of Anet / Martina Lenz -- Conclusions / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre -- Appendices / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre -- Appendix A. From Words To Technical Practices: Moulds And Naval Architecture In The Middle Ages / Eric Rieth -- Appendix B. The Rare Traces Of Constructional Procedures In "Practical Geometries" / Jens Høyrup -- Appendix C. Draughting Curves Used In Ship Design / Jobst Lessenich -- Appendix D. Bibliographical Notes On Historical Metrology / Compiled and Jobst Lessenich -- Index / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824359803321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Materials in eighteenth-century science [[electronic resource] ] : a historical ontology / / Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre
| Materials in eighteenth-century science [[electronic resource] ] : a historical ontology / / Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre |
| Autore | Klein Ursula <1952-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (357 p.) |
| Disciplina | 540.9/033 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LefèvreWolfgang <1941-> |
| Collana | Transformations |
| Soggetto topico |
Chemistry - History - 18th century
Ontology - History - 18th century Classification of sciences |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-09730-X
9786612097300 0-262-27726-3 1-4294-6563-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
List of Figures; Introduction; Part I - Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science Contexts and Practices; Introduction to Part I; 1 - Commodities and Natural Objects; 2 - Practices of Studying Materials in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry; 3 - Why Study Classification?; Part II - A World of Pure Chemical Substances; Introduction to Part II; 4 - 1787: A New Nomenclature; 5-The Tableau de la Nomenclature Chimique; 6 - Classifying According to Chemical Composition; 7 - Simple Substances and Paradigmatic Syntheses; 8 - Operations with Pure Chemical Substances
9 - Classification of Pure Chemical Substances before 1787 10 - A Revolutionary Table?; Part III - A Different World: Plant Materials; Introduction to Part III; 11 - Diverse Orders of Plant Materials; 12 - Ultimate Principles of Plants: Plant Analysis prior to 1750; 13 - The Epistemic Elevation of Vegetable Commodities; 14 - The Failure of Lavoisier's Plant Chemistry; 15 - Uncertainties; 16 - A Novel Mode of Classifying Organic Substances and an Ontological Shift around 1830; Conclusion: Multidimensional Objects and Materiality; References; Name Index; Subject Index |
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Klein Ursula <1952->
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Materials in eighteenth-century science : a historical ontology / / Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre
| Materials in eighteenth-century science : a historical ontology / / Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre |
| Autore | Klein Ursula <1952-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (357 p.) |
| Disciplina | 540.9/033 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LefèvreWolfgang <1941-> |
| Collana | Transformations |
| Soggetto topico |
Chemistry - History - 18th century
Ontology - History - 18th century Classification of sciences |
| Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
PHYSICAL SCIENCES/General PHYSICAL SCIENCES/Materials Science |
| ISBN |
1-282-09730-X
9786612097300 0-262-27726-3 1-4294-6563-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
List of Figures; Introduction; Part I - Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science Contexts and Practices; Introduction to Part I; 1 - Commodities and Natural Objects; 2 - Practices of Studying Materials in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry; 3 - Why Study Classification?; Part II - A World of Pure Chemical Substances; Introduction to Part II; 4 - 1787: A New Nomenclature; 5-The Tableau de la Nomenclature Chimique; 6 - Classifying According to Chemical Composition; 7 - Simple Substances and Paradigmatic Syntheses; 8 - Operations with Pure Chemical Substances
9 - Classification of Pure Chemical Substances before 1787 10 - A Revolutionary Table?; Part III - A Different World: Plant Materials; Introduction to Part III; 11 - Diverse Orders of Plant Materials; 12 - Ultimate Principles of Plants: Plant Analysis prior to 1750; 13 - The Epistemic Elevation of Vegetable Commodities; 14 - The Failure of Lavoisier's Plant Chemistry; 15 - Uncertainties; 16 - A Novel Mode of Classifying Organic Substances and an Ontological Shift around 1830; Conclusion: Multidimensional Objects and Materiality; References; Name Index; Subject Index |
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Klein Ursula <1952->
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Materials in eighteenth-century science : a historical ontology / / Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre
| Materials in eighteenth-century science : a historical ontology / / Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre |
| Autore | Klein Ursula <1952-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (357 p.) |
| Disciplina | 540.9/033 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LefèvreWolfgang <1941-> |
| Collana | Transformations |
| Soggetto topico |
Chemistry - History - 18th century
Ontology - History - 18th century Classification of sciences |
| Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
PHYSICAL SCIENCES/General PHYSICAL SCIENCES/Materials Science |
| ISBN |
1-282-09730-X
9786612097300 0-262-27726-3 1-4294-6563-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
List of Figures; Introduction; Part I - Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science Contexts and Practices; Introduction to Part I; 1 - Commodities and Natural Objects; 2 - Practices of Studying Materials in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry; 3 - Why Study Classification?; Part II - A World of Pure Chemical Substances; Introduction to Part II; 4 - 1787: A New Nomenclature; 5-The Tableau de la Nomenclature Chimique; 6 - Classifying According to Chemical Composition; 7 - Simple Substances and Paradigmatic Syntheses; 8 - Operations with Pure Chemical Substances
9 - Classification of Pure Chemical Substances before 1787 10 - A Revolutionary Table?; Part III - A Different World: Plant Materials; Introduction to Part III; 11 - Diverse Orders of Plant Materials; 12 - Ultimate Principles of Plants: Plant Analysis prior to 1750; 13 - The Epistemic Elevation of Vegetable Commodities; 14 - The Failure of Lavoisier's Plant Chemistry; 15 - Uncertainties; 16 - A Novel Mode of Classifying Organic Substances and an Ontological Shift around 1830; Conclusion: Multidimensional Objects and Materiality; References; Name Index; Subject Index |
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Klein Ursula <1952->
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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