Histories of Science
Danielle Spratt (Hrsg.), David Alff (Hrsg.)
Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
Spreading the news of scientific breakthroughs in the eighteenth century
Histories of Science shows how different forms of media communicated scientific breakthroughs during the long eighteenth century, bringing together eighteen humanities scholars to discuss the representation, reception, and application of natural philosophy in the Atlantic world. In particular, the authors focus on descriptions of scientific discoveries in popular print, with essays on topics as varied as placebo pills, irrigation systems, and navigational technology. And while each contributor advances a discrete argument, the collection coheres in its shared questions of methodology, historicity, and ethics.
Histories of Science expands our record of the past, our understanding of the present, and our ability to imagine the future.
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New Experiments Physico-mechanical, science and literature, microscopes, mythology, Susanna Centlivre, object-oriented ontology, performance studies, infrastructure studies, A Journal of the Plague Year, sextant, craft laborers, Enlightenment, witnessing, enslaved African people, ship hands, Daniel Defoe, anatomy, geomythography, ASECS Science Caucus, formal criticism, Atlantic world, Scientific Revolution, Royal Society, Jane Barker, A Bold Stroke for a Wife, new historicism, A Voyage Round the World, husbandry, telescopes, navigation, irrigation systems, plant studies, medical humanities, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, print culture, age of revolutions, earth system theory, Philosophical Transactions, WIlliam Hogarth