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Science and Medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment

Author : Charles W. J. Withers

Publisher : John Donald

Page : 402 pages

File Size : 28,80 MB

Release : 2002

Category : History

ISBN :

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Writing to Dugald Stewart in June 1789, Thomas Jefferson enthused that as far as science was concerned, no place in the world can pretend to a competition with Edinburgh. Yet, despite similar encomiums down the years, the role of the natural sciences and medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment is still neither generally appreciated nor fully understood. This collection of ten essays by scholars in the field provides a comprehensive overview of the place of scientific and medical enquiry in Scotland during the period 1690-1815. Each chapter presents new research in order to reflect upon previous interpretations and to suggest fresh perspectives on the relationship between science and medicine and culture and society in 18th-century Scotland. Collectively, the essays illustrate both the centrality of natural and medical knowledge in enlightened culture and the wider implications of Scotland's story for an understanding of science and medicine in the modern world.



Science in the Scottish Enlightenment

Author : The Open University

Publisher : The Open University

Page : 65 pages

File Size : 14,67 MB

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ISBN : 1473006538

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This 5-hour free course explored scientific developments and leading figures in Scotland in the 18th century with regard to the Enlightenment period.



The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment

Author : Alexander Broadie

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 386 pages

File Size : 10,74 MB

Release : 2003-04-10

Category : History

ISBN : 9780521003230

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The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment offers a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement that has been profoundly influential on western culture. A distinguished team of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Colin Maclaurin and other Scottish thinkers, in fields including philosophy, natural theology, economics, anthropology, natural science and law. In addition, the contributors relate the Scottish Enlightenment to its historical context and assess its impact and legacy in Europe, America and beyond. The result is a comprehensive and accessible volume that illuminates the richness, the intellectual variety and the underlying unity of this important movement. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy, theology, literature and the history of ideas.



The Scottish Enlightenment

Author : Alexander Broadie

Publisher : Birlinn

Page : 277 pages

File Size : 46,8 MB

Release : 2012-11-01

Category : History

ISBN : 0857904981

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The Scottish Enlightenment was one of the truly great intellectual and cultural movements of the world. Its achievements in science, philosophy, history, economics, and other disciplines also, were immense; and its influence has hardly if at all been dimmed in the intervening two centuries. This book, written for the general reader, considers the achievement of this most astonishing period of Scottish history. It attends not only to the ideas that made the Scottish Enlightenment such a wondrous moment, but also to the people themselves who generated these ideas – men such as David Hume and Adam Smith, who are still read for the sake of the light they shed on contemporary issues.



Seeking Nature's Logic

Author : David B. Wilson

Publisher : Penn State Press

Page : 364 pages

File Size : 35,54 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Science

ISBN : 0271035250

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"Studies the path of natural philosophy (i.e., physics) from Isaac Newton through Scotland into the nineteenth-century background to the modern revolution in physics. Examines how the history of science has been influenced by John Robison and other notable intellectuals of the Scottish Enlightenment"--Provided by publisher.





Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment

Author : Charles Bradford Bow

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 237 pages

File Size : 39,6 MB

Release : 2018

Category : History

ISBN : 0198783906

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Common sense philosophy was one of the Scottish Enlightenment's most original intellectual products. The nine specially written essays in this volume explore the philosophical and historical significance of this school of thought, recovering the ways in which it developed during the long eighteenth century.



History and the Enlightenment

Author : Hugh Trevor-Roper

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 341 pages

File Size : 15,62 MB

Release : 2010-06-29

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0300139349

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The historical philosophy of the Enlightenment -- The Scottish Enlightenment -- Pietro Giannone and Great Britain -- Dimitrie Cantemir's Ottoman history and its reception in England -- From deism to history: Conyers Middleton -- David Hume, historian -- The idea of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire -- Gibbon and the publication of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire 1776-1976 -- Gibbon's last project -- The romantic movement and the study of history -- Lord Macaulay: the history of England -- Thomas Carlyle's historical philosophy -- Jacob Burckhardt.