The Cambridge companion to Newton / / edited by I. Bernard Cohen and George E. Smith [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 500 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 530/.092 |
Collana | Cambridge companions to philosophy |
Soggetto topico |
Physics - Europe - History - 17th century
Physics - Europe - History - 18th century Science - Europe - History - 17th century Science - Europe - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
1-139-81604-7
0-511-99860-0 1-280-42060-X 9786610420605 0-511-17640-6 0-511-04047-4 0-511-15722-3 0-511-32554-1 0-511-04810-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Newton's philosophical analysis of space and time / Robert Disalle -- Newton's concepts of force and mass, with notes on the Laws of Motion / I. Bernard Cohen -- Curvature in Newton's dynamics / J. Bruce Brackenridge and Michael Nauenberg -- Methodology of the Principia / George E. Smith -- Newton's argument for universal gravitation / William Harper -- Newton and celestial mechanics / Curtis Wilson -- Newton's optics and atomism / Alan E. Shapiro -- Newton's metaphysics / Howard Stein -- Analysis and synthesis in Newton's mathematical work / Niccolò Guicciardini -- Newton, active powers, and the mechanical philosophy / Alan Gabbey -- Background to Newton's chymistry / William Newman -- Newton's alchemy / Karin Figala -- Newton on prophecy and the Apocalypse / Maurizio Mamiani -- Newton and eighteenth-century Christianity / Scott Mandelbrote -- Newton versus Leibniz : from geomentry to metaphysics / A. Rupert Hall -- Newton and the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence / Domenico Bertoloni Meli. |
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Languages of science in the eighteenth century [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Britt-Louise Gunnarsson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.4/09033 |
Altri autori (Persone) | GunnarssonBritt-Louise |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Europe - History - 18th century
Technical writing - Europe - History - 18th century Scientists - Europe - Intellectual life - 18th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
History of Ideas and Thoughts
Language for Specific Purposes Sociology of Science |
ISBN |
1-283-43014-2
9786613430144 3-11-025506-5 |
Classificazione | ES 155 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Editor's acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Introduction: Languages of science in the eighteenth century / Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise -- Section 1. The forming of scientific communities -- Church, state, university, and the printing press: Conditions for the emergence and maintenance of autonomy of scientific publication in Europe / Bazerman, Charles -- Philology in the eighteenth century: Europe and Sweden / Gren-Eklund, Gunilla -- The Swedish Academy of Sciences: Language policy and language practice / Teleman, Ulf -- Section 2. The emergence of new languages of science -- Scientific literacy in eighteenth-century Germany / Schellenberg, Renata -- From vernacular to national language: Language planning and the discourse of science in eighteenth-century Sweden / Hannesdóttir, Anna Helga -- From Latin and Swedish to Latin in Swedish. On the early modern emergence of a professional vernacular variety in Sweden / Wollin, Lars -- Science and natural language in the eighteenth century: Buffon and Linnaeus / Sörman, Richard -- From theory of ideas to theory of succedaneum: The Linnaean botanical nomenclature(s) as "a point of view on the world" / Selosse, Philippe -- Section 3. The spread of scientific ideas -- Linnaeus's international correspondence. The spread of a revolution / Jönsson, Ann-Mari -- The influence of Carl Linnaeus on the Encyclopaedia Britannica of 1771 / Gläser, Rosemarie -- Linnaeus and the Siberian expeditions: Translating political empire into a kingdom of knowledge / Knoespel, Kenneth J. -- The introduction of the Linnaean classification of nature in Portugal / Costa, Palmira Fontes da -- Section 4. The development of scientific writing -- Linnaeus as a connecting link in Swedish language history / Ralph, Bo -- Calendar and aphorism: A generic study of Carl Linnaeus's Fundamenta Botanica and Philosophia Botanica / Chang, Han-Liang -- The reflective cultivator? Model readers in eighteenth-century Swedish garden literature / Nord, Andreas -- The linguistic construction of scientificality in early Swedish medical texts / Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise -- Eighteenth-century English medical texts and discourses on reproduction / Pahta, Päivi -- Subject index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996308833303316 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011 | ||
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Languages of science in the eighteenth century / / edited by Britt-Louise Gunnarsson |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.4/09033 |
Altri autori (Persone) | GunnarssonBritt-Louise |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Europe - History - 18th century
Technical writing - Europe - History - 18th century Scientists - Europe - Intellectual life - 18th century |
ISBN |
1-283-43014-2
9786613430144 3-11-025506-5 |
Classificazione | ES 155 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Editor's acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Introduction: Languages of science in the eighteenth century / Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise -- Section 1. The forming of scientific communities -- Church, state, university, and the printing press: Conditions for the emergence and maintenance of autonomy of scientific publication in Europe / Bazerman, Charles -- Philology in the eighteenth century: Europe and Sweden / Gren-Eklund, Gunilla -- The Swedish Academy of Sciences: Language policy and language practice / Teleman, Ulf -- Section 2. The emergence of new languages of science -- Scientific literacy in eighteenth-century Germany / Schellenberg, Renata -- From vernacular to national language: Language planning and the discourse of science in eighteenth-century Sweden / Hannesdóttir, Anna Helga -- From Latin and Swedish to Latin in Swedish. On the early modern emergence of a professional vernacular variety in Sweden / Wollin, Lars -- Science and natural language in the eighteenth century: Buffon and Linnaeus / Sörman, Richard -- From theory of ideas to theory of succedaneum: The Linnaean botanical nomenclature(s) as "a point of view on the world" / Selosse, Philippe -- Section 3. The spread of scientific ideas -- Linnaeus's international correspondence. The spread of a revolution / Jönsson, Ann-Mari -- The influence of Carl Linnaeus on the Encyclopaedia Britannica of 1771 / Gläser, Rosemarie -- Linnaeus and the Siberian expeditions: Translating political empire into a kingdom of knowledge / Knoespel, Kenneth J. -- The introduction of the Linnaean classification of nature in Portugal / Costa, Palmira Fontes da -- Section 4. The development of scientific writing -- Linnaeus as a connecting link in Swedish language history / Ralph, Bo -- Calendar and aphorism: A generic study of Carl Linnaeus's Fundamenta Botanica and Philosophia Botanica / Chang, Han-Liang -- The reflective cultivator? Model readers in eighteenth-century Swedish garden literature / Nord, Andreas -- The linguistic construction of scientificality in early Swedish medical texts / Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise -- Eighteenth-century English medical texts and discourses on reproduction / Pahta, Päivi -- Subject index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910168748503321 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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The ovary of Eve [[electronic resource] ] : egg and sperm and preformation / / Clara Pinto-Correia |
Autore | Correia Clara Pinto |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.4/09/032 |
Soggetto topico |
Embryology - History
Reproduction - Research - History Science - Europe - History - 17th century Science - Europe - History - 18th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9786611223915
1-281-22391-3 0-226-66950-5 |
Classificazione | XB 3400 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATI0NS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE -- 1. All About Eve -- 2. All About A dam -- 3. "One Does Not See the Wind" -- 4. Hopeful Monsters -- 5. Frogs with Boxer Shorts -- 6. The H Word -- 7. The Music of the Spheres -- 8. Magical Numbers -- Epilogue. The Fat Lady Will Not Sing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455277003321 |
Correia Clara Pinto | ||
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1997 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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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 |
McOuat Gordon | ||
Boston : , : BRILL, , 2022 | ||
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Translating early modern science / / edited by Sietske Fransen, Niall Hodson, Karl A. E. Enenkel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs |
Disciplina | 418.035 |
Collana | Intersections : Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Europe - History - 16th century
Science - Europe - History - 17th century Science - Europe - History - 18th century Scientific literature - Translating - Europe - History Translators - Europe - History Scholars - Europe - History Translating and interpreting - Europe - History Knowledge, Sociology of - History |
ISBN | 90-04-34926-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Translators and Translations of Early Modern Science / Sietske Fransen -- Translation in the Circle of Robert Hooke / Felicity Henderson -- Networks and Translation within the Republic of Letters: The Case of Theodore Haak (1605–1690) / Jan van de Kamp -- What Difference does a Translation Make? The Traité des vernis (1723) in the Career of Charles Dufay / Michael Bycroft -- ‘Ordinary Skill in Cutts’: Visual Translation in Early Modern Learned Journals / Meghan C. Doherty -- ‘As the Author Intended’: Transformations of the Unpublished Writings and Drawings of Simon Stevin (1548–1620) / Charles van den Heuvel -- Bringing Euclid into the Mines: Classical Sources and Vernacular Knowledge in the Development of Subterranean Geometry / Thomas Morel -- Image, Word and Translation in Niccolò Leonico Tomeo’s Quaestiones Mechanicae / Joyce van Leeuwen -- ‘Secrets of Industry’ for ‘Common Men’: Charles de Bovelles and Early French Readerships of Technical Print / Richard J. Oosterhoff -- Taming Epicurus: Gassendi, Charleton, and the Translation of Epicurus’ Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century / Rodolfo Garau -- Ibrahim Müteferrika’s Copernican Rhetoric / B. Harun Küçük -- ‘Now Brought before You in English Habit’: An Early Modern Translation of Galileo into English / Iolanda Plescia -- Language as ‘Universal Truchman’: Translating the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century / Fabien Simon -- Index Nominum. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910504301203321 |
Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2017 | ||
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Weighing the world [[electronic resource] ] : the quest to measure the Earth / / Edwin Danson |
Autore | Danson Edwin <1948-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, N.Y., : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
Disciplina | 526/.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Europe - History - 18th century
Industrial revolution - Europe - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-029281-4
0-19-972509-8 1-280-84548-1 0-19-804013-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 1 I Cannot Be Wrong; 2 The Titan King; 3 A Calm and Gentle Character; 4 The Galileo of France; 5 Extreme Science; 6 Robberies and Depredations; 7 A Magnificent Military Sketch; 8 Persons Well Versed; 9 Very Expert in His Business; 10 A Passage with My Horse; 11 Frankenstein and Other Experiments; 12 A Remarkable Hill; 13 Important Observations; 14 So Great a Noise; 15 The Attraction of Mountains; 16 The Best of the Position; 17 Distinguished Merit; 18 Late by a Whole Year; 19 Geodetic Experiments; 20 I Know It Will Answer; 21 Offering Violence to Nature; 22 A Meritorious Foreigner
23 Men Worthy of Confidence24 Irregularities We Have Discovered; Appendix: Explanations and Definitions; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450884203321 |
Danson Edwin <1948-> | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, N.Y., : Oxford University Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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