Zoological Illustration: An Essay Towards a History of Printed Zoological Pictures

Knight, David M.

Arts & Photography

Shoe String Pr Inc

The nature of science: The history of science in western culture since 1600

Science & Math

History & Philosophy

A. Deutsch

177p hardback, black jacket, near fine, excellent copy

A Companion to the Physical Sciences

Routledge

The Age of Science: Scientific World-view in the Nineteenth Century y First edition by Knight, David (1986) Hardcover

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Blackwell*publishers

A comprehensive account of significant books on science appearing in English over three centuries, with extensive bibliographies and over 100 illustrations.

Natural Science Books in English: 1600-1900

David&Charles

In this unconventional history of chemistry, David Knight takes the refreshing view that the science has "its glorious future behind it." Today, chemistry is primarily a service science. In its very long history, though, chemistry has taken on very different roles. It has been the esoteric preoccupation of alchemists, the source of mechanist views of matter, the cornerstone of all other sciences and medicine, an archetype of experimental science, a science of revolutions, a science that imposed order on the material world, and a partner for physics, biology, and technology.
Through all these past lives, chemistry has absorbed ideasÑfrom artisans, from other sciences, from philosophy, from its social and cultural matrixÑand generated its own concepts to pass back to the rest of the world. Rather than writing a survey of chemistry's triumphs, Knight covers the course of its intellectual and institutional history through carefully chosen episodes that display the complex mix of experiment, theory, application, social attitude, tradition, luck, and human quirkiness that have shaped chemistry's changing character.
This delightfully written book should engage the attention of anyone interested in the interplay of science and ideas, whether a general reader, a student, a scientist, or historian of science.

Ideas in Chemistry: A History of the Science

Chemistry

Rutgers Univ Pr

The Romantic Era was a time when society, religion and other beliefs, and science were all in flux. The idea that the universe was a great clock, and that men were little clocks, all built by a divine watchmaker, was giving way to a more dynamic and pantheistic way of thinking. A new language was invented for chemistry, replacing metaphor with algebra; and scientific illustration came to play the role of a visual language, deeply involved with theory. A scientific community came gradually into being as the 19th century wore on. The papers which compose this book have appeared in a wide range of books and journals; together with the new introduction they illuminate science and its context in the Romantic Era and follow its effects in the 19th century.

Science in the Romantic Era (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 615)

Variorum

Alcanzando a Jesus: 5 Pasos Hacia LA Plenitud De LA Vida : Con Manuel De Trabajo (Spanish Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Franciscan Media

Experiencing the Mass: Drawing Meaning from the Five Moments of Mystery [Pape...

Experiencing the Mass: Drawing Meaning from the Five Moments of Mystery

History

Abbey Press

Make me a Sabbath of your heart: Exploring the law of the spirit in the Sermon on the Mount

His Way

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