Anna Marie Roos

Martin Folkes (1690-1754)

Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur is a cultural and intellectual biography of the only President of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 857g
• ISBN-13: 9780198830061
• ISBN-10: 0198830068
• Artikelnr.: 60716582

Autorenporträt

Anna Marie Roos is a Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Lincoln

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: Nascent Newtonian, 1690-1716
* 3: Lucretia Bradshaw: Recovering a Wife and a Life
* 4: Folkes and his Social Networks in 1720s London
* 5: Taking Newton on Tour
* 6: Martin Folkes, Antiquarian
* 7: Martin Folkes and the Royal Society Presidency: biological
sciences and vitalism
* 8: Martin Folkes and the Royal Society Presidency: The Electric
Imagination
* 9: Charting a Personal and Institutional Life