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  • Volume 4: Eighteenth-Century Science
  • Edited by Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, University College London
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2008
Print publication year:
2003
Online ISBN:
9781139053549
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521572439
Subjects:
History of Science and Technology, History of Philosophy, History, History of Science: General Interest
Collections:
Cambridge Histories - Global History, Cambridge Histories - Philosophy & Political Thought
Series:
The Cambridge History of Science
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Book description

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.

Reviews

‘… [A] rich collection of material …’

Source: The Times Literary Supplement

'… historians of medicine will undoubtedly find this a useful reference book for help in contextualizing their teaching and research. It achieves Porter's intention of providing a stable platform upon which scholarship on the nineteenth century can be built.'

William H. Brock Source: Medical History

'… contains excellent chapters and it will be very useful as a guide within the world of history of science …'

Source: Ambix

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