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0521572436 978-0521572439 March 17, 2003
This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century. It is designed to be read as both a narrative and an interpretation, and also to be used as a work of reference. While prime attention is paid to Western science, space is also given to science in traditional cultures and to colonial science. The contributors, world leaders in their respective specialties, engage with current historiographical and methodological controversies and strike out positions of their own. Cambridge Histories Online

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"This comprehensive work surveys the development of science during the Enlightenment, when European science extended the Scientific Revolution into new areas.... Those already familiar with the century in general will find the specific essays on individual sciences of particular interest... Recommended." Choice

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"Was ist Aufklarung?" asked Immanuel Kant in 1784, and the issue has remained hotly debated ever since. Read the first page
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perturbational problem, animal magnetizers, marginalized practices, evidential scholarship, calendrical astronomy, apsidal motion, institutiones medicae, cameral science, secular inequalities, solar parallax, sentient principle, quantifying spirit, new gases, planetary perturbations, algebraic analysis, lunar theory
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Cambridge University Press, Royal Society, New York, Princeton University Press, University of California Press, Harvard University Press, Roy Porter, Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, Joseph Banks, Simon Schaffer, Isaac Newton, Steven Shapin, Jai Singh, Cornell University Press, David Hume, Philosophical Transactions, Joseph Priestley, Johns Hopkins University Press, Preliminary Discourse, Adam Smith, Journal of the History, New Haven, Yale University Press, Larry Stewart
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