9780813315768 - Science For A Polite Society: Gender, Culture, And The Demonstration Of Enlightenment von Sutton, Geoffrey V. (9 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Gut. Reprint. XIII, 391 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Contents -- The Introduction, in which the Author offers two tales of the Scientific Revolution -- Science in the Reign of Louis XIII -- Pawning off the New Science: Theophraste Renaudot and the Conferences of the Bureau dadresse -- Natural History and Natural Philosophy at the -- Bureau dadresse -- Science and Orthodoxy at the Bureau dadresse -- The Comparative Case of Literature -- Of Black Sheep, False Suns, and Systematic Thought: René Descartes and His World -- A biographical sketch of the philosopher as black sheep -- The Cartesian System; or, a lengthy explanation -- of false suns -- Reflections on the mind-body problem -- Science in the Reign of Louis XIV -- A Science for a Polite Society: the Crown as the second most Philosophical Hat in Paris -- The precious pursuit of natural philosophy -- Science as gloire in the court of the Sun King -- A Pretty Novel of Physics, in which Cogito, ergo sum meets cest moi -- A Science for the Sun King -- Dutch Reformed Cartesian Liberalism, with notes on deconstruction and other things -- The Sun King strikes back -- The birth of a new Cartesian Physics -- Science in the Reign of Louis XV -- The Demonstration of Enlightenment -- The most philosophical hat in Paris passes to Pierre Polini ère -- Demonstration-Lectures: Enlightenment without Hypothesis -- Jean Antoine Nollet and the Enlightenment in Paris -- The Discovery of the Newtonian World; or, Flattening the Poles if not the Cartesians -- Lmilie du Chatelet and the Mind of -- the Enlightenment -- The Discovery of the Newtonian World -- The best of all possible worlds; or, the marriage of -- Newton and Leibniz -- A new conversation on the plurality of worlds, in which -- Fontenelle is both panned and glossed -- Electricity in the Eighteenth Century; or, The Philosophy of Shocks and Sparks -- The world is full of a pumber of things, most of them electric -- The système Nollet -- Of kites and coonskin caps: a noble savage for electricity -- The Conclusion, in which the Author Draws a Moral. ISBN 9780813315768 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 637 15,6 x 2,3 x 23,5 cm, Broschiert / Paperback.

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Zustand: New. A re-examination of the social, cultural and intellectual context of the origins of modern science. The setting is not the laboratory, but the literary salons of 17th- and 18th-century France, and the action takes place between Europe's last great witch-hunts and the emergence of the modern world. Num Pages: 416 pages, figures, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; JFCX; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 500. . 1997. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.