Scientific culture and the making of the industrial West
The new science and its new audience -- The cultural meaning of Cartesianism : from the self to nature (and back to the state) -- Science in the crucible of the English revolution -- The Newtonian enlightenment -- The cultural origins of the first industrial revolution -- The Watts, entrepreneurs --...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York u.a.
Oxford University Press
1997
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The new science and its new audience -- The cultural meaning of Cartesianism : from the self to nature (and back to the state) -- Science in the crucible of the English revolution -- The Newtonian enlightenment -- The cultural origins of the first industrial revolution -- The Watts, entrepreneurs -- Scientific education and industrialization in continental Europe -- French industry and engineers under absolutism and revolution -- How science worked in industrial moments : case studies from Great Britain. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliography (p 255-260) and index. - Rev. ed. of: The cultural meaning of the scientific revolution. 1988 |
| Beschreibung: | X, 269 S. Ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0195082192 0-19-508219-2 0195082206 0-19-508220-6 |