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'... [A] rich collection of material ...'. Times Literary Supplement
' ... historians of medicine will undoubtedly find this a useful reference book for help in contextualizing their teaching and research. It achieves Porter's intention of providing a stable platform upon which scholarship on the nineteenth-century can be built.' William H Brock, University of Kent Medical History
Book Description
This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century. It is designed to be read as both a narrative and an interpretation, and also to be used as a work of reference. While prime attention is paid to Western science, space is also given to science in traditional cultures and to colonial science. The contributors, world leaders in their respective specialties, engage with current historiographical and methodological controversies and strike out positions of their own.
The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 4: The Eighteenth Century (The Cambridge History of Science),Roy Porter,David C. Lindberg,Ronald L. Numbers,Cambridge University Press,0521572436,General,History,History Of Science,Science,Science/Mathematics,Social sciences,Science / History
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