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Political Writings (Penguin Classics)

Politics & Social Sciences

David Wootton

Philosophy

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Invention of Science

Penguin

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (c. 1681) is perhaps the key founding liberal text. A Letter Concerning Toleration, written in 1685 (a year when a Catholic monarch came to the throne of England and Louis XVI unleashed a reign of terror against Protestants in France), is a classic defense of religious freedom. Yet many of Locke's other writings--not least the Constitutions of Carolina, which he helped draft--are almost defiantly anti-liberal in outlook.
This comprehensive collection brings together the main published works (excluding polemical attacks on other people's views) with the most important surviving evidence from among Locke’s papers relating to his political philosophy. David Wootton's wide-ranging and scholarly Introduction sets the writings in the context of their time, examines Locke's developing ideas and unorthodox Christianity, and analyzes his main arguments. The result is the first fully rounded picture of Locke’s political thought in his own words.

Locke: Political Writings (Hackett Classics)

John, Locke

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet today, science and its practitioners have come under political attack. In this fascinating history spanning continents and centuries, historian David Wootton offers a lively defense of science, revealing why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history. The Invention of Science goes back five hundred years in time to chronicle this crucial transformation, exploring the factors that led to its birth and the people who made it happen. Wootton argues that the Scientific Revolution was actually five separate yet concurrent events that developed independently, but came to intersect and create a new world view. Here are the brilliant iconoclasts-Galileo, Copernicus, Brahe, Newton, and many more curious minds from across Europe-whose studies of the natural world challenged centuries of religious orthodoxy and ingrained superstition. From gunpowder technology, the discovery of the new world, movable type printing, perspective painting, and the telescope to the practice of conducting experiments, the laws of nature, and the concept of the fact, Wootton shows how these discoveries codified into a social construct and a system of knowledge ideas of truth, knowledge, progress. Ultimately, he makes clear the link between scientific discovery and the rise of industrialization-and the birth of the modern world we know.

The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution

History

World

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

The Illustrators: (the British Art of Illustration 1800-1988)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Chris Beetles Ltd.

The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration, 1780-1993 [Nov 01, 1993] Wootton, David; Corneilissen, Julia and Rainbird, Katherine

The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration, 1780-1993

Fully illustrated exhibition catalogue with additional texts by Les Coleman and Alan Horne

The Illustrators: the British Art of Illustration 1800-1997

Chris Beetles

A fascinating catalogue, containing the wide range of artists and works now expected from the Chris Beetles Gallery, and its well-established annual exhibition of the work of some of Britain's best-loved illustrators. Familiar and favourite illustrators are included from Mabel Lucie Attwell to Arthur Rackham. The wealth of illustrations is complemented by detailed biographical entries. A special feature of this volume is a cumulative index, listing all of the artists included in the catalogues over the last ten years, confirming the strength of this British art in the last two centuries, and of the gallery's part in promoting it.

The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration, 1786-2003

Individual Artists

The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1800-2008

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