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Science For A Polite Society
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Author : Geoffrey V. Sutton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-06
Science For A Polite Society written by Geoffrey V. Sutton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Social Science categories.
Traditional accounts of the scientific revolution focus on such thinkers as Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, and usually portray it as a process of steady, rational progress. There is another side to this story, and its protagonists are more likely to be women than men, dilettante aristocrats than highly educated natural philosophers. The setting is not the laboratory, but rather the literary salons of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, and the action takes place sometime between Europe's last great witch hunts and the emergence of the modern world.Science for a Polite Society is an intriguing reexamination of the social, cultural, and intellectual context of the origins of modern science. The elite of French society accepted science largely because of their personal involvement and fascination with the emerging philosophy of nature. Members of salon society, especially women, were avid readers of works of natural philosophy and active participants in experiments for the edification of their peers. Some of these women went on to champion the new science and played a significant role in securing its acceptance by polite society.As Geoffrey Sutton points out, the sheer entertainment value of startling displays of electricity and chemical explosions would have played an important role in persuading the skeptical. We can only imagine the effects of such drawing-room experiments on an audience that lived in a world illuminated by tallow candles. For many, leaping electrical arcs and window-rattling detonations must have been as convincing as Newton's mathematically elegant description of the motions of the planets.With the acceptance and triumph of the new science came a prestige that made it a model of what rationality should be. The Enlightenment adopted the methods of scientific thought as the model for human progress. To be an ?enlightened? thinker meant believing that the application of scientific methods could reform political and economic life, to the lasting benefit of humanity. We live with the ambiguous results of that legacy even today, although in our own century we are perhaps more impressed by the ability of science to frighten, rather than to awe and entertain.
Science For A Polite Society
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Author : Geoffrey V. Sutton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-13
Science For A Polite Society written by Geoffrey V. Sutton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-13 with Science categories.
Traditional accounts of the scientific revolution focus on such thinkers as Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, and usually portray it as a process of steady, rational progress. There is another side to this story, and its protagonists are more likely to be women than men, dilettante aristocrats than highly educated natural philosophers. The setting i
Popular Science And Public Opinion In Eighteenth Century France
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Author : Michael R. Lynn
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-14
Popular Science And Public Opinion In Eighteenth Century France written by Michael R. Lynn and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-14 with History categories.
In this book, Michael R. Lynn analyzes the popularization of science in Enlightenment France. He examines the content of popular science, the methods of dissemination, the status of the popularizers and the audience, and the settings for dissemination and appropriation. Lynn introduces individuals like Jean-Antoine Nollet, who made a career out of applying electric shocks to people, and Perrin, who used his talented dog to lure customers to his physics show. He also examines scientifically oriented clubs like Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier's Musée de Monsieur which provided locations for people interested in science.
A Science For A Polite Society
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Author : Geoffrey V. Sutton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
A Science For A Polite Society written by Geoffrey V. Sutton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Naturalism categories.
The Cambridge History Of Science Volume 4 Eighteenth Century Science
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Author : David C. Lindberg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-03-17
The Cambridge History Of Science Volume 4 Eighteenth Century Science written by David C. Lindberg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-17 with Science categories.
The fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century.
Making Science Social
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Author : Kathleen Anne Wellman
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2003
Making Science Social written by Kathleen Anne Wellman and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Between 1633 and 1642, the French physician and philanthropist Théophraste Renaudot sponsored a series of public conferences in Paris. These conferences offered an open forum for wide-ranging discussions of a variety of topics, including science, medicine, gender, politics, and ethics. No matter the topic, participants consistently used scientific reasoning as a new standard of evidence. The conferences thus recast the rhetorical traditions of the Renaissance and prefigured the social sciences of the Enlightenment. They provide a candid snapshot of intellectual life at the dawn of the scientific revolution in France. In Making Science Social, Kathleen Wellman uses the published conference proceedings to develop a broadly conceived, revisionist interpretation of the intellectual history of seventeenth-century France and of the roots of modern culture and science. Volume 6 in the Series for Science and Culture
Polite Society
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Author : Mahesh Rao
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-08-20
Polite Society written by Mahesh Rao and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-20 with Fiction categories.
'Is it possible to marry a book? Because Polite Society is so funny, smart, sophisticated, and captivating, you just want to spend your whole life with it. It was love at first sight from the very first page' Kevin Kwan, author of CRAZY RICH ASIANS Ania Khurana is beautiful, clever and in need of entertainment. She's wrapped Delhi society around her little finger, and now her creativity requires a new vista. Then she finds love for her spinster aunt, rescuing her from a life watching Masterchef. Hugely satisfied with her first success as a matchmaker, Ania selects her friend Dimple for her next quest. But good intentions can go awry, and when a handsome suitor arrives from America, Ania discovers that when you aim to please the human heart, things seldom go to plan. 'Witty, smart, compelling' Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire
The First Frame
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Author : Pannill Camp
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-12-04
The First Frame written by Pannill Camp and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-04 with Architecture categories.
A unique account of the way architects, dramatists, and philosophers transformed theatre space in the eighteenth century.
The Scientific Revolution
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Author : Steven Shapin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-11-05
The Scientific Revolution written by Steven Shapin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-05 with Science categories.
This scholarly and accessible study presents “a provocative new reading” of the late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century advances in scientific inquiry (Kirkus Reviews). In The Scientific Revolution, historian Steven Shapin challenges the very idea that any such a “revolution” ever took place. Rejecting the narrative that a new and unifying paradigm suddenly took hold, he demonstrates how the conduct of science emerged from a wide array of early modern philosophical agendas, political commitments, and religious beliefs. In this analysis, early modern science is shown not as a set of disembodied ideas, but as historically situated ways of knowing and doing. Shapin shows that every principle identified as the modernizing essence of science—whether it’s experimentalism, mathematical methodology, or a mechanical conception of nature—was in fact contested by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century practitioners with equal claims to modernity. Shapin argues that this contested legacy is nevertheless rightly understood as the origin of modern science, its problems as well as its acknowledged achievements. This updated edition includes a new bibliographic essay featuring the latest scholarship. “An excellent book.” —Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review
The Cambridge Companion To Benjamin Franklin
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Author : Carla Mulford
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-15
The Cambridge Companion To Benjamin Franklin written by Carla Mulford and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Comprehensive and accessible, this Companion addresses several well-known themes in the study of Franklin and his writings, while also showing Franklin in conversation with his British and European counterparts in science, philosophy, and social theory. Specially commissioned chapters, written by scholars well-known in their respective fields, examine Franklin's writings and his life with a new sophistication, placing Franklin in his cultural milieu while revealing the complexities of his intellectual, literary, social, and political views. Individual chapters take up several traditional topics, such as Franklin and the American dream, Franklin and capitalism, and Franklin's views of American national character. Other chapters delve into Franklin's library and his philosophical views on morality, religion, science, and the Enlightenment and explore his continuing influence in American culture. This Companion will be essential reading for students and scholars of American literature, history and culture.