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CABINETS OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE
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| By: |
Giorgio Strano, Jim Bennett (Editor), Sofia Talas (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£90.32 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9004252967 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789004252967 |
| Publisher: |
BRILL |
| Pub. date: |
21 June, 2013 |
| Series: |
History of Science and Medicine Library / Scientific Instruments and 40/3 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
Cabinets of Experimental Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Europe explains how collections of instruments for demonstrating the principles of Newtonian science were offered successfully to a broad public audience and formed the basis of an intellectual, educational and cultural movement that spread across Europe. |
| Synopsis: |
Cabinets of Experimental Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Europe is an ambitious contribution to the growing interest in how science came to engage the attention of a public outside the academic and professional spheres and how collections of instruments played a formative role in this development.Collections of physical instruments for research and demonstration appeared throughout Europe in the eighteenth century and the coverage of the book is correspondingly broad. While collections in different cultural and geographical locations had much in common, there were significant local modifications. The essays in this book illustrate how science, sometimes thought to be monolithic and universal, can maintain core intellectual characteristics and practical techniques while adapting to particular sites and circumstances.Contributors include: Jim Bennett, Sofia Talas, Huib J. Zuidervaart, Hans Hooijmaijers, Ad Maas, Tiemen Cocquyt, Inga Elmqvist Soderlund, Paola Bertucci, Marta C. Lourenco, David Felismino, Ivano Dal Prete, Ewa Wyka, Martin Weiss, and Paolo Brenni.? |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Brill |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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