Tore Frängsmyr
Biographic Data
| ID | 1109941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tore Frängsmyr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tore |
| FAMILY NAME | Frängsmyr |
| SIGNATURE | FRÄNGSMYR T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century
The European Enlightenment
This article discusses the concept of ‘Enlightenment’. Many historians of ideas use it in such a vague way that it loses its meaning, for instance to characterize an oppositional attitude no matter when it occurred, or just as a chronological epoch (meaning the whole 18th century). Therefore, it is preferable to have a more distinct definition, based on the French Enlightenment as the main movement. The question of a Swedish Enlightenment is disc…
Chance Subdued by Science
Solomon's House Revisited
Science in Sweden
Les chemins du savoir en Suede
Les chemins du savoir en Suède
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 173 ists argued that the machines deprived laborers of work, obviating their labor-intensive theory. They criticized manufacturing machines for the same reason: efficient machines employed fewer hands. The goal was not technological development. Machines were only useful when they did what neither man nor beast could do. The danger in the academy’s early concern for utility was triviality, a threat the members …
The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century
Linnaeus, The Man and His Work
Sarton and Nordstrom
Guest Editorial
Eloge
Homo sapiens L. Studier i Carl von Linnés naturuppfattning och ma̋nniskola̋ra. (Homo sapiens L. Studies in Linnaeus' Concept of Nature and His Physical Anthropology) . Gunnar Broberg
Svensk lärdomshistoria. Sten Lindroth
The Geological Ideas of J. J. Berzelius
The development of geology during the first half of the nineteenth century is now considered to be more complicated than was once thought. The positivistic picture of two conflicting schools, one of them allegedly modern and progressive, the other supposedly conservative and scriptural, is too simplistic and misleading. First, the influence of the Bible has been exaggerated. It is true that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Flood ha…
Christian Wolff's Mathematical Method and its Impact on the Eighteenth Century
Swedish Science in the Eighteenth Century
Israel Hwasser. Sven-Eric Liedman
Israel Hwasser. Sven-Eric Liedman
Swedish Science in the Eighteenth Century
Christian Wolff's Mathematical Method and its Impact on the Eighteenth Century
The Geological Ideas of J. J. Berzelius
The development of geology during the first half of the nineteenth century is now considered to be more complicated than was once thought. The positivistic picture of two conflicting schools, one of them allegedly modern and progressive, the other supposedly conservative and scriptural, is too simplistic and misleading. First, the influence of the Bible has been exaggerated. It is true that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Flood ha…
Homo sapiens L. Studier i Carl von Linnés naturuppfattning och ma̋nniskola̋ra. (Homo sapiens L. Studies in Linnaeus' Concept of Nature and His Physical Anthropology) . Gunnar Broberg
Svensk lärdomshistoria. Sten Lindroth
Eloge
Guest Editorial
Linnaeus, The Man and His Work
Sarton and Nordstrom
The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century
Science in Sweden
Les chemins du savoir en Suede
Les chemins du savoir en Suède
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 173 ists argued that the machines deprived laborers of work, obviating their labor-intensive theory. They criticized manufacturing machines for the same reason: efficient machines employed fewer hands. The goal was not technological development. Machines were only useful when they did what neither man nor beast could do. The danger in the academy’s early concern for utility was triviality, a threat the members …
Solomon's House Revisited
Chance Subdued by Science
The European Enlightenment
This article discusses the concept of ‘Enlightenment’. Many historians of ideas use it in such a vague way that it loses its meaning, for instance to characterize an oppositional attitude no matter when it occurred, or just as a chronological epoch (meaning the whole 18th century). Therefore, it is preferable to have a more distinct definition, based on the French Enlightenment as the main movement. The question of a Swedish Enlightenment is disc…
Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century
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