Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750–1850 [[electronic resource] ] : Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem / / edited by Patrick Manning & Daniel Rood |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina | 509/.033 |
Soggetto topico |
SCIENCE / History
World history - Historiography Science - Historiography Social change - History - 19th century Social change - History - 18th century Science - History - 19th century Science - History - 18th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8229-8148-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Building Global Perspectives in History of Science : The Era from 1750 to 1850 / Patrick Manning -- Part I. Exchanges among Ways of Knowing -- Between Bureaucrats and Bark Collectors : Spain's Royal Reserve of Quina and the Limits of European Botany in the Late Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World / Matthew James Crawford -- Hurricanes on the Gulf Coast : Environmental Knowledge and Science in Louisiana, the Caribbean, and the United States, 1722-1900 / Eleonora Rohland -- The History and Influence of Maria Sibylla Merian's Bird-Eating Tarantula : Circulating Images and the Production of Natural Knowledge / Kay Etheridge -- Part II. Evolution of the Linnaean Vision -- Linnaeus's Apostles and the Globalization of Knowledge, 1729-1756 / Kenneth Nyberg -- Local, Universal, and Embodied Knowledge : Anglo-Swedish Contacts and Linnaean Natural History / Hanna Hodacs -- How Eighteenth-Century "Travelers in Trade" Changed Swedish Perceptions of Economic Systems / Göran Ryden -- Part III. Debates on Description and Taxonomy -- The Slow Science of Swift Nature : Hummingbirds and Humans in New Spain / Iris Montero Sobrevilla -- Felix de Azara and the Birds of Paraguay : Making Inventories and Taxonomies at the Boundaries of the Spanish Empire, 1784-1802 / Marcelo Fabián Figueroa -- Los Pichiciegos : Scraps of Information and the Affinities of Mammals in the Early Nineteenth Century / Irina Podgorny -- Part IV. Logistics, Management, and Planning -- Mapping the Global and Local Archipelago of Scientific Tropical Sugar : Agriculture, Knowledge, and Practice, 1790-1880 / Leida Fernández-Prieto -- "Squares of Tropic Summer" : The Wardian Case, Victorian Horticulture, and the Logistics of Global Plant Transfers, 1770-1910 / Stuart McCook -- Stamping Empire : Postal Standardization in Nineteenth-Century India / Devyani Gupta -- Part V. Labor and Economics in History of Science -- The Great Data Divergence : Global History of Science within Global Economic History / Jessica Ratcliff -- Toward a Global Labor History of Science / Daniel Rood. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910494721903321 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Global scientific practice in an age of revolutions, 1750–1850 / / edited by Patrick Manning & Daniel Rood |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina | 509/.033 |
Soggetto topico |
SCIENCE / History
World history - Historiography Science - Historiography Social change - History - 19th century Social change - History - 18th century Science - History - 19th century Science - History - 18th century |
ISBN | 0-8229-8148-3 |
Classificazione | SCI034000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Building Global Perspectives in History of Science : The Era from 1750 to 1850 / Patrick Manning -- Part I. Exchanges among Ways of Knowing -- Between Bureaucrats and Bark Collectors : Spain's Royal Reserve of Quina and the Limits of European Botany in the Late Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World / Matthew James Crawford -- Hurricanes on the Gulf Coast : Environmental Knowledge and Science in Louisiana, the Caribbean, and the United States, 1722-1900 / Eleonora Rohland -- The History and Influence of Maria Sibylla Merian's Bird-Eating Tarantula : Circulating Images and the Production of Natural Knowledge / Kay Etheridge -- Part II. Evolution of the Linnaean Vision -- Linnaeus's Apostles and the Globalization of Knowledge, 1729-1756 / Kenneth Nyberg -- Local, Universal, and Embodied Knowledge : Anglo-Swedish Contacts and Linnaean Natural History / Hanna Hodacs -- How Eighteenth-Century "Travelers in Trade" Changed Swedish Perceptions of Economic Systems / Göran Ryden -- Part III. Debates on Description and Taxonomy -- The Slow Science of Swift Nature : Hummingbirds and Humans in New Spain / Iris Montero Sobrevilla -- Felix de Azara and the Birds of Paraguay : Making Inventories and Taxonomies at the Boundaries of the Spanish Empire, 1784-1802 / Marcelo Fabián Figueroa -- Los Pichiciegos : Scraps of Information and the Affinities of Mammals in the Early Nineteenth Century / Irina Podgorny -- Part IV. Logistics, Management, and Planning -- Mapping the Global and Local Archipelago of Scientific Tropical Sugar : Agriculture, Knowledge, and Practice, 1790-1880 / Leida Fernández-Prieto -- "Squares of Tropic Summer" : The Wardian Case, Victorian Horticulture, and the Logistics of Global Plant Transfers, 1770-1910 / Stuart McCook -- Stamping Empire : Postal Standardization in Nineteenth-Century India / Devyani Gupta -- Part V. Labor and Economics in History of Science -- The Great Data Divergence : Global History of Science within Global Economic History / Jessica Ratcliff -- Toward a Global Labor History of Science / Daniel Rood. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798408803321 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Global scientific practice in an age of revolutions, 1750–1850 / / edited by Patrick Manning & Daniel Rood |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina |
509/.033
509.033 |
Soggetto topico |
SCIENCE / History
World history - Historiography Science - Historiography Social change - History - 19th century Social change - History - 18th century Science - History - 19th century Science - History - 18th century |
ISBN | 0-8229-8148-3 |
Classificazione | SCI034000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Building Global Perspectives in History of Science : The Era from 1750 to 1850 / Patrick Manning -- Part I. Exchanges among Ways of Knowing -- Between Bureaucrats and Bark Collectors : Spain's Royal Reserve of Quina and the Limits of European Botany in the Late Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World / Matthew James Crawford -- Hurricanes on the Gulf Coast : Environmental Knowledge and Science in Louisiana, the Caribbean, and the United States, 1722-1900 / Eleonora Rohland -- The History and Influence of Maria Sibylla Merian's Bird-Eating Tarantula : Circulating Images and the Production of Natural Knowledge / Kay Etheridge -- Part II. Evolution of the Linnaean Vision -- Linnaeus's Apostles and the Globalization of Knowledge, 1729-1756 / Kenneth Nyberg -- Local, Universal, and Embodied Knowledge : Anglo-Swedish Contacts and Linnaean Natural History / Hanna Hodacs -- How Eighteenth-Century "Travelers in Trade" Changed Swedish Perceptions of Economic Systems / Göran Ryden -- Part III. Debates on Description and Taxonomy -- The Slow Science of Swift Nature : Hummingbirds and Humans in New Spain / Iris Montero Sobrevilla -- Felix de Azara and the Birds of Paraguay : Making Inventories and Taxonomies at the Boundaries of the Spanish Empire, 1784-1802 / Marcelo Fabián Figueroa -- Los Pichiciegos : Scraps of Information and the Affinities of Mammals in the Early Nineteenth Century / Irina Podgorny -- Part IV. Logistics, Management, and Planning -- Mapping the Global and Local Archipelago of Scientific Tropical Sugar : Agriculture, Knowledge, and Practice, 1790-1880 / Leida Fernández-Prieto -- "Squares of Tropic Summer" : The Wardian Case, Victorian Horticulture, and the Logistics of Global Plant Transfers, 1770-1910 / Stuart McCook -- Stamping Empire : Postal Standardization in Nineteenth-Century India / Devyani Gupta -- Part V. Labor and Economics in History of Science -- The Great Data Divergence : Global History of Science within Global Economic History / Jessica Ratcliff -- Toward a Global Labor History of Science / Daniel Rood. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819139203321 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Measuring the new world [[electronic resource] ] : enlightenment science and South America / / Neil Safier |
Autore | Safier Neil |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (406 p.) |
Disciplina | 509/.033 |
Soggetto topico |
Scientific expeditions - Ecuador - Quito - History - 18th century
Science - Europe - History - 18th century Communication in science - Europe - History - 18th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-96638-X
9786611966386 0-226-73356-4 |
Classificazione | NK 4760 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The ruined pyramids of Yaruquí -- An enlightened Amazon, with fables and a fold-out map -- Armchair explorers -- Correcting Quito -- A nation defamed and defended -- Incas in the king's garden -- The golden monkey and the monkey-worm. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454179103321 |
Safier Neil | ||
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Measuring the new world [[electronic resource] ] : enlightenment science and South America / / Neil Safier |
Autore | Safier Neil |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (406 p.) |
Disciplina | 509/.033 |
Soggetto topico |
Scientific expeditions - Ecuador - Quito - History - 18th century
Science - Europe - History - 18th century Communication in science - Europe - History - 18th century |
Soggetto non controllato | enlightenment, science, scientific, south america, scientist, 1700s, regional, geography, europe, european, explorer, colonialism, paris academy of sciences, ecuador, history, historical, earth, astronomy, interdisciplinary, expedition, transatlantic, knowledge, research, academic, scholarly, maps, geographical, intellectual, 18th century, amazon river, region |
ISBN |
1-281-96638-X
9786611966386 0-226-73356-4 |
Classificazione | NK 4760 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The ruined pyramids of Yaruquí -- An enlightened Amazon, with fables and a fold-out map -- Armchair explorers -- Correcting Quito -- A nation defamed and defended -- Incas in the king's garden -- The golden monkey and the monkey-worm. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782453803321 |
Safier Neil | ||
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Measuring the new world : enlightenment science and South America / / Neil Safier |
Autore | Safier Neil |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (406 p.) |
Disciplina | 509/.033 |
Soggetto topico |
Scientific expeditions - Ecuador - Quito - History - 18th century
Science - Europe - History - 18th century Communication in science - Europe - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
1-281-96638-X
9786611966386 0-226-73356-4 |
Classificazione | NK 4760 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The ruined pyramids of Yaruqui -- An enlightened Amazon, with fables and a fold-out map -- Armchair explorers -- Correcting Quito -- A nation defamed and defended -- Incas in the king's garden -- The golden monkey and the monkey-worm. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821735503321 |
Safier Neil | ||
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Quantifying spirit in the 18th century / / edited by Tore Frängsmyr, J.L. Heilbron, and Robin E. Rider |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1990] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 411 pages, 21 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 509/.033 |
Collana | Uppsala studies in history of science |
Soggetto topico |
Science - History - 18th century
Technology - History - 18th century Sciences - General Physical Sciences & Mathematics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books |
ISBN | 0-585-07198-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910495871203321 |
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1990] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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