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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Isaac Newton, anatomy, Daniel Defoe, husbandry, theatrics, craft laborers, women, exploration, science and literature, formal criticism, mythology, infrastructure studies, New Experiments Physico-mechanical, Royal Society, earth system theory, Susanna Centlivre, artists, medicine, placebo, technology, irrigation systems, Robert Boyle, object-oriented ontology, A Bold Stroke for a Wife, ship hands, witnessing, ASECS Science Caucus, Philosophical Transactions, Scientific Revolution, navigation, animals, nature, new historicism, plows, plants, Atlantic world, Jane Barker, print culture, age of revolutions, performance studies, Enlightenment, A Voyage Round the World, enslaved African people, geomythography, sextant, evidence, WIlliam Hogarth, plant studies, patients, children, telescopes, medical humanities, A Journal of the Plague Year, microscopes