Science For A Polite Society

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Author_Geoffrey V. Sutton
Cartesian Natural Philosophy
Cartesian System
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De Rambouillet
early modern France
Electric Virtue
Enlightenment era scientific discourse
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Excite Electricity
False Suns
Fontenelle's Conversations
history of science
Huygens
Ivory Balls
Jacques Rohault
Jean Chapelain
Kepler's Laws
Kepler's Work
Leyden Jar
Louis XIV's France
Louis XIV's Paris
Mlle De
Mme Du
natural philosophy
Notebook Method
Petrus Van Musschenbroek
Philosophical Gentleman
Renaudot's Bureau
salon culture
scientific revolution studies
Subtle Matters
Universal Gravitation
women in science
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780367317898
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Sep 2019
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Traditional accounts of the scientific revolution focus on such thinkers as Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, and usually portray it as a process of steady, rational progress. There is another side to this story, and its protagonists are more likely to be women than men, dilettante aristocrats than highly educated natural philosophers. The setting i
Geoffrey V. Sutton teaches at Macalester College.

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