Histories of Science

Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Danielle Spratt (Hrsg.), David Alff (Hrsg.)

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Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews

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