Geoffrey V Sutton

Science for a Polite Society

Gender, Culture, and the Demonstration of Enlightenment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an intriguing re-examination of the social, cultural, and intellectual context of the origins of modern science. It shows that the French adopted science as basis for their enlightenment because of their personal fascination with philosophy of nature and the history of its creatures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780813315768
• ISBN-10: 081331576X
• Artikelnr.: 21668219

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey V. Sutton

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
The Introduction, in which the Author offers two tales of the Scientific Revolution
Science in the Reign of Louis XIII
Pawning off the New Science: Theophraste Renaudot and the Conferences of the Bureau d'adresse
Of Black Sheep, False Suns, and Systematic Thought: René Descartes and His World
Science in the Reign of Louis XIV
A Science for a Polite Society: the Crown as the second most Philosophical Hat in Paris
A Pretty Novel of Physics, in which Cogito, ergo sum meets l'État, c'est moi
Science in the Reign of Louis XV
The Demonstration of Enlightenment
The Discovery of the Newtonian World; or, Flattening the Poles if not the Cartesians
Electricity in the Eighteenth Century; or, The Philosophy of Shocks and Sparks
The Conclusion, in which the Author Draws a Moral