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
| 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 | ||
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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 | ||
| 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
| 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 | ||
| 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
| 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 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Jefferson's shadow [[electronic resource] ] : the story of his science / / Keith Thomson
| 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 |
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| New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2012 | ||
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Jefferson's shadow [[electronic resource] ] : the story of his science / / Keith Thomson
| 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 |
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| New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2012 | ||
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Jefferson's shadow : the story of his science / / Keith Thomson
| 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 |
9781283742306
1283742306 9780300187403 0300187408 |
| 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-9910971050603321 |
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| New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2012 | ||
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Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century / / Keith Baker, Jenna Gibbs
| Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century / / Keith Baker, Jenna Gibbs |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
| Disciplina | 909.7 |
| Collana | UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Vitalism
Science - History - 18th century Enlightenment |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Libros electronicos. |
| ISBN |
9781442630260
1442630264 9781442630253 1442630256 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part One : History as a Life Form. 1. Johann Christoph Gatterer and history as science / Martin Gierl -- 2. An Epicurean democracy in language : the volte face in Johann David Michaelis's early career / Avi Lifschitz -- 3. Reill's Vitalizing nature in the Enlightenment and German Naturphilosophie / John Zammito -- Part Two : Vitalism in Political and Cultural Translation -- 4. "That infinite variety of human forms" : modern identity and portraiture in Enlightenment England / Frederic Ogee -- 5. Was Marat a vitalist? / Keith Michael Baker -- 6. The vital organism in the thought of Humboldt and Mill / Kris Pangburn -- Part Three : Esotericism and the Enlightenment. 7. Constructs of life forms in Lavater's Physiognomy / Annette Graczyk -- 8. The preaching philosopher : Andreas Weber (1718-81) between Wolffian philosophy and heterodox theology / Renko Geffarth -- 9. Between myth and archive, alchemy and science in eighteenth-century Naples : The cabinet of Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of San Severo / Clorinda Donato -- 10. The liberal mysticism of Madame de Staël / Helena Rosenblatt. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911009154203321 |
| Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] | ||
| 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
| 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 |
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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
| 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 |
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| Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004 | ||
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