Author : James Delbourgo
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 2006-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674022997
"The first book to situate early American experimental science in the context of a transatlantic public sphere, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders offers a view of the origins of American science and the cultural meaning of the American Enlightenment."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0190263989
In the Beginning Was the Word provides a sweeping, engaging, and insightful survey of the relationship between the Bible and public issues from the beginning of European settlement through the American Revolution. It focuses throughout on how people negotiated between the Bible and other social authorities, such as ecclesiastical tradition, national and imperial politics, and economic mandates.
Author : Lydia Syson
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2012-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1846882265
Widely accepted as the world's first sex therapist, Dr Graham was devoted to the research of the effect of physical stimuli on the psyche, and more specifically on sexual activity. This biography is a depiction of both the man himself and eighteenth-century society.
Author : Kara Reilly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137319674
This trans-historical collection explores analogue performance technologies from Ancient Greece to pre-Second World War. From ancient mechanical elephants to early modern automata, Enlightenment electrical experiments to Victorian spectral illusions, this volume offers an original examination of the precursors of contemporary digital performance.
Author : Jose R Torre
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 22,26 MB
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1040240933
Aims to modify the periodization for the American Enlightenment. Americans did accept an early and moderate Enlightenment characterised by the work of Locke and Newton. This collection highlights the functional nature of the Enlightenment in America.
Author : Barrie Charles Blake-Coleman
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783718652006
An admirable study of a vital modern technology that traces its roots to perhaps 3000 BC. Blake-Coleman began this history as a thesis; he's obviously been unable to let go. He describes the technology, demand and market growth through the expansion of electrical transmissions with trade statistics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Michael Brian Schiffer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520248295
Annotation A lively and entertaining study of early electrical technology, this book brings to life the technologies and inventors--most notably Benjamin Franklin--who forged the way for our modern electrical world.
Author : Raymond Phineas Stearns
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780252001208
Author : Samuel Fitch Hotchkin
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Bucks County (Pa.)
ISBN :
Author : Jessica Riskin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226720853
Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism," natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion. Riskin argues that sentimental empiricism brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics. She shows, for instance, how the study of blindness, led by ideas about the mental and moral role of vision and by cataract surgeries, shaped the first school for the blind; how Benjamin Franklin's electrical physics, ascribing desires to nature, engaged French economic reformers; and how the question of the role of language in science and social life linked disputes over Antoine Lavoisier's new chemical names to the founding of France's modern system of civic education. Recasting the Age of Reason by stressing its conjunction with the Age of Sensibility, Riskin offers an entirely new perspective on the development of modern science and the history of the Enlightenment.
