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The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere / / edited by Jed Buchwald, Larry Stewart
| The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere / / edited by Jed Buchwald, Larry Stewart |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 509 |
| Collana | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology |
| Soggetto topico |
History
Food—Biotechnology Humanities History of Science Food Science Popular Science in Humanities / Arts |
| ISBN | 3-319-58436-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Ernie Hamm: Trevor Levere, Affinities that Matter -- 2. Victor Boantza: Elements, Instruments, and Menstruums: Boerhaave’s Imponderable Fire Between Chemical Masterpiece and Physical Axiom -- 3. Larry Stewart, At the Medical Edge or, THE BEDDOES EFFECT -- 4. David Philip Miller, ‘Men of Letters’ and ‘Men of Press Copies’: The Cultures of James Watt’s Copying Machine -- 5. David Knight, Poetry, Chemistry, and Wisdom -- 6. Robert Anderson, Facts or Fantasies in the Chemistry Lecture Theatre? -- 7. Janis Langins, Poetry In War And War In Nature. From Vauban To Naturphilosophie To Clausewitz -- 8. Greg Good, John Herschel’s Geology: The Cape of Good Hope in the 1830s -- 9. Margaret Schabas, More Food for Thought: Mill, Coleridge and the Dismal Science of Economics -- 10. Gordon McOuat, "These can not all have an interest for England": Chance Events, Beauty and The Trouble with Romanticism in Britain -- 11. Andrew Ede, Science Born of Poison, Fire and Smoke: Chemical Warfare and the Origins of Big Science -- 12. Jed Buchwald, Politics, Morality, Innovation, and Misrepresentation in Physical Science and Technology -- 13. Jennifer Hubbard, Fishing an Extreme Environment: Science, Sovereignty and Hudson Bay -- 14. David Pantalony, Collectors, Displays and Replicas in Context: What We Learn from Provenance Research in Science Museums -- 15. Suzanne Zeller, Context, Connections and Culture: The History of Science in Canada as a Field of Study. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910254764603321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Spaces of Enlightenment Science
| Spaces of Enlightenment Science |
| Autore | McOuat Gordon |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : BRILL, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 pages) |
| Disciplina | 509.409/03 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | StewartLarry |
| Collana | Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy |
| Soggetto topico |
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) |
| ISBN | 90-04-50122-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910838356403321 |
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| Boston : , : BRILL, , 2022 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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