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Eighteenth-Century Science

Series The Cambridge History of Science, Volume
4

Edited by Roy
Porter

Publication Date 2003

Hardback ISBN-10 0521572436

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521572439

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1017/CHOL9780521572439

Overview

This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and
most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century,
exploring the implications of the 'scientific revolution' of the previous
century and the major new growth-points, particularly in the experimental
sciences. It is designed to be read as both a narrative and an interpretation,
and also used as a work of reference. While prime attention is paid to western
science, space is also given to science in traditional cultures and colonial
science. The coverage strikes a balance between analysis of the cognitive
dimension of science itself and interpretation of its wider social, economic and
cultural significance. The contributors, world leaders in their respective
specialities, engage with current historiographical and methodological
controversies and strike out on positions of their own.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see Eighteenth-Century Science in
the Cambridge University Press online catalogue.

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Cambridge History of Science Vol. 4: Eighteenth-Century Science

Frontmatter

Introduction
by Roy
Porter

Science
and Society

Disciplines

Special
Themes

Non-Western
Traditions

Ramifications
and Impacts

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