The era of experiments and the age of wonder : scientific expansion from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries : proceedings of the symposium in honor of the reopening of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, and the Smithsonian Libraries' Resident Scholar Program / / edited by Lilla Vekerdy |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 87 pages) : illustrations |
Collana | A Smithsonian contribution to knowledge |
Soggetto topico |
Science - History - 17th century
Science - History - 18th century Science - History - 19th century Technology - History - 17th century Technology - History - 18th century Technology - History - 19th century Communication in learning and scholarship |
Soggetto genere / forma | Conference papers and proceedings. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Era of experiments and the age of wonder |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910704044903321 |
Washington, D.C. : , : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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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Jefferson's shadow [[electronic resource] ] : the story of his science / / Keith Thomson |
Autore | Thomson Keith Stewart |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
Disciplina |
973.4/6092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Science - History - 18th century
Science - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-74230-6
0-300-18740-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. The young Jefferson -- pt. 2. Natural science -- pt. 3. They, the people -- pt. 4. Useful knowledge -- pt. 5. The national stage -- pt. 6. Philosophical issues. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462124503321 |
Thomson Keith Stewart | ||
New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Jefferson's shadow [[electronic resource] ] : the story of his science / / Keith Thomson |
Autore | Thomson Keith Stewart |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
Disciplina |
973.4/6092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Science - History - 18th century
Science - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-283-74230-6
0-300-18740-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. The young Jefferson -- pt. 2. Natural science -- pt. 3. They, the people -- pt. 4. Useful knowledge -- pt. 5. The national stage -- pt. 6. Philosophical issues. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786351903321 |
Thomson Keith Stewart | ||
New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Jefferson's shadow : the story of his science / / Keith Thomson |
Autore | Thomson Keith Stewart |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
Disciplina |
973.4/6092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Science - History - 18th century
Science - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-283-74230-6
0-300-18740-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. The young Jefferson -- pt. 2. Natural science -- pt. 3. They, the people -- pt. 4. Useful knowledge -- pt. 5. The national stage -- pt. 6. Philosophical issues. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827696603321 |
Thomson Keith Stewart | ||
New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Practical matter [[electronic resource] ] : Newton's science in the service of industry and empire, 1687-1851 / / Margaret C. Jacob and Larry Stewart |
Autore | Jacob Margaret C. <1943-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 201 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 501 |
Altri autori (Persone) | StewartLarry <1946-> |
Collana | New histories of science, technology, and medicine |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy - History - 17th century
Science - Philosophy - History - 18th century Science - Philosophy - History - 19th century Science - History - 17th century Science - History - 18th century Science - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-674-03903-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Newtonian Revolution -- 2 The Western Paradigm Decisively Shifts -- 3 Popular Audiences and Public Experiments -- 4 Practicality and the Radicalism of Experiment -- 5 Putting Science to Work: European Strategies -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454686303321 |
Jacob Margaret C. <1943-> | ||
Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Practical matter [[electronic resource] ] : Newton's science in the service of industry and empire, 1687-1851 / / Margaret C. Jacob and Larry Stewart |
Autore | Jacob Margaret C. <1943-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 201 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 501 |
Altri autori (Persone) | StewartLarry <1946-> |
Collana | New histories of science, technology, and medicine |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy - History - 17th century
Science - Philosophy - History - 18th century Science - Philosophy - History - 19th century Science - History - 17th century Science - History - 18th century Science - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
0-674-26469-X
0-674-03903-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Newtonian Revolution -- 2 The Western Paradigm Decisively Shifts -- 3 Popular Audiences and Public Experiments -- 4 Practicality and the Radicalism of Experiment -- 5 Putting Science to Work: European Strategies -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778184903321 |
Jacob Margaret C. <1943-> | ||
Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Practical matter : Newton's science in the service of industry and empire, 1687-1851 / / Margaret C. Jacob and Larry Stewart |
Autore | Jacob Margaret C. <1943-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 201 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 501 |
Altri autori (Persone) | StewartLarry <1946-> |
Collana | New histories of science, technology, and medicine |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy - History - 17th century
Science - Philosophy - History - 18th century Science - Philosophy - History - 19th century Science - History - 17th century Science - History - 18th century Science - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
0-674-26469-X
0-674-03903-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Newtonian Revolution -- 2 The Western Paradigm Decisively Shifts -- 3 Popular Audiences and Public Experiments -- 4 Practicality and the Radicalism of Experiment -- 5 Putting Science to Work: European Strategies -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819909003321 |
Jacob Margaret C. <1943-> | ||
Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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