Science For A Polite Society : Gender, Culture, And The Demonstration Of Enlightenment /: Gender, Culture, And The Demonstration Of Enlightenment. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Geoffrey V. Sutton.
• Authors: Sutton, Geoffrey V
• Contents: Preface -- The Introduction, in which the Author offers two tales of the Scientific Revolution -- Science in the Reign of Louis XIII -- Pawning off the New Science: Theophraste Renaudot and the Conferences of the Bureau d’adresse -- Of Black Sheep, False Suns, and Systematic Thought: René Descartes and His World -- Science in the Reign of Louis XIV -- A Science for a Polite Society: the Crown as the second most Philosophical Hat in Paris -- A Pretty Novel of Physics, in which Cogito, ergo sum meets l’État, c’est moi -- Science in the Reign of Louis XV -- The Demonstration of Enlightenment -- The Discovery of the Newtonian World; or, Flattening the Poles if not the Cartesians -- Electricity in the Eighteenth Century; or, The Philosophy of Shocks and Sparks -- The Conclusion, in which the Author Draws a Moral
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (416 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429965968; 0429965966
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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