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  • Natural Theology

    de William Paley ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The consciousness of knowing little, need not beget a distrust of that which he does not know.' In Natural Theology William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world. Famously beginning by comparing the world to a watch, whose design is self-evident, he goes on to provide examples from biology, anatomy, and astronomy in order to ... Leer más

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  • The Language of Mineralogy

    John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750-1800

    Series series Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
    Classification is an important part of science, yet the specific methods used to construct Enlightenment systems of natural history have proven to be the bête noir of studies of eighteenth-century culture. One reason that systematic classification has received so little attention is that natural history was an extremely diverse subject which appealed to a wide range of practitioners, including ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Science and Beliefs

    From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, 1700–1900

    Series series Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
    The years between 1700 and 1900 witnessed a fundamental transition in attitudes towards science, as earlier concepts of natural philosophy were replaced with a more modern conception of science. This process was by no means a simple progression, and the changing attitudes to science was marked by bitter arguments and fundamental differences of opinion, many of which are still not entirely resolved ... Leer más

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  • Natural Theology

    de William Paley ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The consciousness of knowing little, need not beget a distrust of that which he does not know.' In Natural Theology William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world. Famously beginning by comparing the world to a watch, whose design is self-evident, he goes on to provide examples from biology, anatomy, and astronomy in order to ... Leer más

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  • Osiris, Volume 29

    Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World

    Series Libro 29 - Osiris
    The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry. The alchemist, once marginalized as a quack, now joins the apothecary, miner, humanist, and natural historian as a practitioner of “chymistry.” In a similar vein, the Chemical Revolution of the eighteenth century, with its focus on phlogiston and airs, has been expanded to ... Leer más

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  • Best Kept Secret

    Series Libro 3 - The Clifton Chronicles
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer, the Clifton Chronicles continues with Best Kept Secret.1945, London. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, ... Leer más

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  • Charles Darwin

    Series series Very Interesting People
    Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of ... Leer más

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  • Victorian Sensation

    The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

    Fiction or philosophy, profound knowledge or shocking heresy? When V estiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in 1844, it sparked one of the greatest sensations of the Victorian era. More than a hundred thousand readers were spellbound by its startling vision—an account of the world that extended from the formation of the solar system to the spiritual destiny of ... Leer más

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  • Novel Science

    Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology

    Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the "heroic age" of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice of science itself, as important to their efforts as mapmaking, fieldwork, and observation. The reading ... Leer más

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  • The Evolution Hoax Exposed

    de A. N. Field ...
    Former Title: Why Colleges Breed Communists. Absolutely devastates Evolution as a credible theory. Studies the history; the theories; the "proof;" the propaganda campaign for; and the results of the theory of Evolution; plus gives the preponderating evidence against it. Great and sadly needed to dispel the now almost universal assumption that Evolution is true. ... Leer más

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  • The Making of Modern Science

    Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789 - 1914

    de David Knight ...
    Series series History of Science
    Of all the inventions of the nineteenth century, the scientist is one of the most striking. In revolutionary France the science student, taught by men active in research, was born; and a generation later, the graduate student doing a PhD emerged in Germany. In 1833 the word 'scientist' was coined; forty years later science (increasingly specialised) was a becoming a profession. Men of science ... Leer más

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  • Public Understanding of Science

    A History of Communicating Scientific Ideas

    de David Knight ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    Answering questions such as whether the interesting parts of science be conveyed in sermons, poems, pictures and journalism, Knight explores the history of science to show how the successes and failures of our ancestors can help us understand the position science comes to occupy now. ... Leer más

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