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      • Volume 4: Eighteenth-Century Science
      • Edited by Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, University College London
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2008
      March 2003
      ISBN:
      9781139053549
      9780521572439
      9781107559738
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521572439
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.402kg, 942 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.43kg, 944 Pages
      • 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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    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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    • 8 - The Philosopher’s Beard: Women and Gender in Science
      pp 184-210
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