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The Cambridge history of science

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003Description: xxx, 912 p. Vol. 4: Eighteenth-Century ScienceISBN:
  • 9780521572439
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 509
Summary: This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century, exploring the implications of the 'scientific revolution' of the previous century and the major new growth-points, particularly in the experimental sciences. It is designed to be read as both a narrative and an interpretation, and also used as a work of reference. While prime attention is paid to western science, space is also given to science in traditional cultures and colonial science. The coverage strikes a balance between analysis of the cognitive dimension of science itself and interpretation of its wider social, economic and cultural significance. The contributors, world leaders in their respective specialities, engage with current historiographical and methodological controversies and strike out on positions of their own. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-history-of-science/A7162422A97C10BD6C15F09F1D6ECDF3#fndtn-information
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 27-B / Slot 1329 (0 Floor, East Wing) General Stacks 509 C2-IV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Vol. 4 Available 156290

This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century, exploring the implications of the 'scientific revolution' of the previous century and the major new growth-points, particularly in the experimental sciences. It is designed to be read as both a narrative and an interpretation, and also used as a work of reference. While prime attention is paid to western science, space is also given to science in traditional cultures and colonial science. The coverage strikes a balance between analysis of the cognitive dimension of science itself and interpretation of its wider social, economic and cultural significance. The contributors, world leaders in their respective specialities, engage with current historiographical and methodological controversies and strike out on positions of their own.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-history-of-science/A7162422A97C10BD6C15F09F1D6ECDF3#fndtn-information

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