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Science in the romantic era
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Title
Science in the romantic era / David M. Knight.
ISBN
1138644447
1138644463
1315628821
1317242173
1317242181
131724219X
9781138644441
9781138644465
9781315628820
9781317242178
9781317242185
9781317242192
9781138644441
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2016.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Notes
"First published in 1998 by Ashgate Publishing Limited.
Includes index.
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Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
Routledge library editions. Romanticism ; Volume 20
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The history of science in Britain: a personal view
Background and foreground: getting things in context
The scientist as sage
Romanticism and the sciences
Steps towards a dynamical chemistry
The physical science and the Romantic Movement
Chemistry, physiology and materialism in the Romantic period
Conquering the prejudice adopted from the French school of chemistry: the science in Britain in Gay-Lussac's time
Science and professionalism in England, 1770-1830
Agriculture and chemistry in Britain around 1800
Tyrannies of distance in British science
The application of Enlightened philosophy: Banks and the physical sciences
A note on sumptuous natural histories
Scientific theory and visual language
William Swainson: types, circles and affinities
William Swainson: naturalist, author and illustrator
Ordering the world
Pictures, diagrams and symbols: visual language in nineteenth-century chemistry
Accomplishment or dogma: chemistry in the introductory works of Jane Marcet and Samuel Parkes
Lavoisier; discovery, interpretation and revolution
Words that make worlds
From science to wisdom: Humphry Davy's life
Getting science across
Science and culture in Mid-Victorian Britain: The reviews and William Crookes' Quarterly Journal of Science
Observation, experiment, theory
and the spirits
Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930): scientism and scepticism.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Science - history
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