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The Columbia guide to American environmental history / / Carolyn Merchant
| The Columbia guide to American environmental history / / Carolyn Merchant |
| Autore | Merchant Carolyn |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Columbia University Press, , [2005] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 304.2 |
| Collana | Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures |
| Soggetto topico | SCIENCE / History |
| ISBN | 0-231-50584-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Historical Overview:Topics and Themes -- 1. The American Environment and Native-European Encounters, 1000-1875 -- 2. The New England Wilderness Transformed, 1600-1850 -- 3. The Tobacco and Cotton South, 1600-1900 -- 4. Nature and the Market Economy, 1750-1850 -- 5. Western Frontiers: The Settlement of California and the Great Plains, 1820 -1930 -- 6. Urban Environments, 1850-1960 -- 7. Conservation and Preservation, 1785-1950 -- 8. Indian Land Policy, 1800-1990 -- 9. The Rise of Ecology, 1890-1990 -- 10. The Era of Environmentalism, 1940-2000 -- Part II. American Environmental History A to Z: Agencies, Concepts, Laws, and People -- Part III. Chronology: An Environmental History Timeline -- Part IV. Resource Guide -- Visual Resources: Films and Videos -- Electronic Resources -- Bibliographical Essay -- Bibliography -- Index |
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The Draining of the Fens : Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England / / Eric H. Ash
| The Draining of the Fens : Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England / / Eric H. Ash |
| Autore | Ash Eric H. <1972-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (415 pages) |
| Disciplina | 942.6 |
| Collana | Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology |
| Soggetto topico |
HISTORY / Renaissance
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain SCIENCE / History Government, Resistance to - England - History Political development - Social aspects - England - History Reclamation of land - England - Fens, The - History Drainage - England - Fens, The - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4214-2201-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The Unrecovered Country : Draining the Land, Building the State -- Part I. Popular Politics, Crown Authority, and the Rise of the Projector -- Land and Life in the Pre-Drainage Fens -- State Building in the Fens, 1570-1607 -- The Crisis of Local Governance, 1609-1616 -- The Struggle to Forge Consensus, 1617-1621 -- Part II. Drainage Projects, Violent Resistance, and State Building -- Draining the Hatfield Level, 1625-1636 -- The First Great Level Drainage, 1630-1642 -- Riot, Civil War, and Popular Politics in the Hatfield Level, 1640-1656 -- The Second Great Level drainage, 1649-1656 -- Epilogue: The Once and Future Fens : Unintended Consequences in an Artificial Landscape -- Glossary. |
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| Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2017 | ||
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The Draining of the Fens : Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England / / Eric H. Ash
| The Draining of the Fens : Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England / / Eric H. Ash |
| Autore | Ash Eric H. <1972-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (415 pages) |
| Disciplina | 942.6 |
| Collana | Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology |
| Soggetto topico |
HISTORY / Renaissance
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain SCIENCE / History Government, Resistance to - England - History Political development - Social aspects - England - History Reclamation of land - England - Fens, The - History Drainage - England - Fens, The - History |
| ISBN | 1-4214-2201-8 |
| Classificazione | SCI034000HIS015000TEC056000HIS037020 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The Unrecovered Country : Draining the Land, Building the State -- Part I. Popular Politics, Crown Authority, and the Rise of the Projector -- Land and Life in the Pre-Drainage Fens -- State Building in the Fens, 1570-1607 -- The Crisis of Local Governance, 1609-1616 -- The Struggle to Forge Consensus, 1617-1621 -- Part II. Drainage Projects, Violent Resistance, and State Building -- Draining the Hatfield Level, 1625-1636 -- The First Great Level Drainage, 1630-1642 -- Riot, Civil War, and Popular Politics in the Hatfield Level, 1640-1656 -- The Second Great Level drainage, 1649-1656 -- Epilogue: The Once and Future Fens : Unintended Consequences in an Artificial Landscape -- Glossary. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792817903321 |
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| Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2017 | ||
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Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750–1850 [[electronic resource] ] : Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem / / edited by Patrick Manning & Daniel Rood
| 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 | ||
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Global scientific practice in an age of revolutions, 1750–1850 / / edited by Patrick Manning & Daniel Rood
| 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 | ||
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Global scientific practice in an age of revolutions, 1750–1850 / / edited by Patrick Manning & Daniel Rood
| 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 |
9780822981480
0822981483 |
| 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-9910975164303321 |
| Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2016 | ||
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Nursing with a Message : Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City / / Patricia D'Antonio
| Nursing with a Message : Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City / / Patricia D'Antonio |
| Autore | D'Antonio Patricia <1955-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, : Rutgers University Press, 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 145 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 610.73/4097471 |
| Collana | Critical issues in health and medicine |
| Soggetto topico |
SCIENCE / History
MEDICAL / History SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services MEDICAL / Nursing / General MEDICAL / Public Health Public health nursing - New York (State) - New York Community health nursing - New York (State) - New York |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato | nurse, nursing, healthcare, health care, medicine, medical, medical history, public health, affordable care act, obamacare, community health center, free clinic, medical clinic, primary care, insurance, health |
| ISBN | 0-8135-7104-9 |
| Classificazione | MED078000MED058000SOC016000MED039000SCI034000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Medicine and a Message -- 2 The Houses That Health Built -- 3 Practicing Nursing Knowledge -- 4 Shuttering the Service -- 5 Not Enough to Be a Messenger -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| New Brunswick, : Rutgers University Press, 2017 | ||
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Nursing with a Message : Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City / / Patricia D'Antonio
| Nursing with a Message : Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City / / Patricia D'Antonio |
| Autore | D'Antonio Patricia <1955-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, : Rutgers University Press, 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 145 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 610.73/4097471 |
| Collana | Critical issues in health and medicine |
| Soggetto topico |
SCIENCE / History
MEDICAL / History SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services MEDICAL / Nursing / General MEDICAL / Public Health Public health nursing - New York (State) - New York Community health nursing - New York (State) - New York |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9780813571041
0813571049 |
| Classificazione | MED078000MED058000SOC016000MED039000SCI034000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Medicine and a Message -- 2 The Houses That Health Built -- 3 Practicing Nursing Knowledge -- 4 Shuttering the Service -- 5 Not Enough to Be a Messenger -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| New Brunswick, : Rutgers University Press, 2017 | ||
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The Perversity of Things [[electronic resource] ] : Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction / / Hugo Gernsback ; edited by Grant Wythoff
| The Perversity of Things [[electronic resource] ] : Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction / / Hugo Gernsback ; edited by Grant Wythoff |
| Autore | Gernsback Hugo <1884-1967, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Middletown, Connecticut ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (377 pages) |
| Disciplina | 813.0876209 |
| Collana | Electronic mediations |
| Soggetto topico |
SCIENCE / History
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: Thematic Contents -- Preface: How to Use This Book -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Tinkering -- A New Interrupter (1905) -- The Dynamophone (1908) -- The Born and the Mechanical Inventor (1911) -- The Radioson Detector (1914) -- What to Invent (1916) -- The Perversity of Things (1916) -- Thomas A. Edison Speaks to You (1919) -- Human Progress (1922) -- Results of the $500.00 Prize Contest: Who Will Save the Radio Amateur? (1923) -- The Isolator (1925) -- The Detectorium (1926) -- New Radio "Things" Wanted (1927) -- Part II. History and Theory of Media -- The Aerophone Number (1908) -- Why "Radio Amateur News" is Here (1919) -- Science and Invention (1920) -- Learn and Work While You Sleep (1921) -- The "New" Science and Invention (1923) -- Are We Intelligent? (1923) -- Part III. Broadcast Regulation -- The Wireless Joker (1908) -- The Wireless Association of America (1909) -- The Roberts Wireless Bill (1910) -- The Alexander Wireless Bill (1912) -- Wireless and the Amateur: A Retrospect (1913) -- The Future of Radio (1919) -- Sayville (1915) -- War and the Radio Amateur (1917) -- Silencing America's Wireless (1917) -- Amateur Radio Restored (1919) -- Wired Versus Space Radio (1927) -- Part IV. Wireless -- [Editorials] (1909) -- From The Wireless Telephone (1911) -- A Treatise on Wireless Telegraphy (1913) -- The Future of Wireless (1916) -- From Radio for All (1922) -- Radio Broadcasting (1922) -- Is Radio at a Standstill? (1926) -- Edison and Radio (1926) -- Why the Radio Set Builder (1927) -- Radio Enters a New Phase (1927) -- The Short-Wave Era (1928) -- Part V. Television -- Television and the Telephot (1909) -- A Radio-Controlled Television Plane (1924) -- After Television---What? (1927) -- Television Technique (1931) -- Part VI. Sound -- Hearing Through Your Teeth (1916) -- Grand Opera by Wireless (1919) -- The Physiophone: Music for the Deaf (1920) -- The "Pianorad" (1926) -- Part VII. Scientifiction -- Signaling to Mars (1909) -- Our Cover (1913) -- Phoney Patent Offizz: Bookworm's Nurse (1915) -- Imagination Versus Fact (1916) -- Interplanetarian Wireless (1920) -- An American Jules Verne (1920) -- 10,000 Years Hence (1922) -- Predicting Future Inventions (1923) -- The Dark Age of Science (1925) -- A New Sort of Magazine (1926) -- The Lure of Scientifiction (1926) -- Fiction Versus Facts (1926) -- Editorially Speaking (1926) -- Imagination and Reality (1926) -- How to Write "Science" Stories (1930) -- Science Fiction vs. Science Faction (1930) -- Wonders of the Machine Age (1931) -- Reasonableness in Science Fiction (1932) -- Part VIII. Selected Fiction -- Ralph 124C 41+, part 3 (1911) -- The Scientific Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, part 5: "Munchhausen Departs for the Planet Mars" (1915) -- The Magnetic Storm (1918) -- The Electric Duel (1927) -- The Killing Flash (1929) -- Notes -- Index -- Chronological Contents -- Preface: How to Use This Book -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A New Interrupter (1905) -- The Dynamophone (1908) -- The Aerophone Number (1908) -- The Wireless Joker (1908) -- The Wireless Association of America (1909) -- [Editorials] (1909) -- Signaling to Mars (1909) -- Television and the Telephot (1909) -- The Roberts Wireless Bill (1910) -- From The Wireless Telephone (1911) -- The Born and the Mechanical Inventor (1911) -- Ralph 124C 41+, part 3 (1911) -- The Alexander Wireless Bill (1912) -- Wireless and the Amateur: A Retrospect (1913) -- Our Cover (1913) -- A Treatise on Wir. |
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| Middletown, Connecticut ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2016 | ||
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Science and Immortality : The Eloges of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1699-1791)
| Science and Immortality : The Eloges of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1699-1791) |
| Autore | Paul Charles B |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (219 pages) |
| Disciplina | 509/.2/2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Eulogies
Science Scientists - France SCIENCE / History |
| ISBN |
9780520378476
9780520304048 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Science and Eulogy -- l: Form and Style -- 2: Attraction and Affinity: Fontenelle and Mairan -- 3: Generation and Taxonomy: The Secretaries' parti pris -- 4: Science and Utility: From Colbert to Franklin -- 5: Estate, Education, and Employment -- 6: Science and Morality: Ancient and Modern Sources -- Conclusion: The Moral Philosophers of Nature -- Appendix A: "Public" Éloges in the Chronological Order of Their Publication -- Appendix B: Condorcet's "Written" Éloges and Notices in the Alphabetical Order of Their Subjects -- Appendix C: "Public" Éloges in the Alphabetical Order of Their Subjects, by Class, with Their Dates of Publication -- Appendix D: Members of the Paris Academy of Sciences Not Eulogized between 1699 and 1791 -- Appendix E: Sources of the Éloges -- Appendix F: Three Sample Éloges -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Indexes. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910984645503321 |
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| Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2018 | ||
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