The Ferment of Knowledge
Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16004405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Jean Hecht (corresponding author), G S Rousseau, Roy Porter |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 470-470 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-2586 • E-ISSN: 1086-315X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2738123 |
| OpenAlex | W2037267236 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
The thirteen original essays in this book examine the status and development of the sciences in the eighteenth century. The last generation has seen a revolution in the methodology adopted by historians of science: The development of science is no longer described as a steady progress towards truth certainties have given way to questions. The essays in this volume scrutinize these changing perspectives in historiography and recommend paths for future study. The eighteenth century has been a neglected and much-misunderstood era in the development of science, all too often viewed as something of a trough between the towering achievements of the 'Scientific Revolution' and the nineteenth century. Yet it was a period of notable developments; it saw the establishment of such fields as electricity and heat, the 'chemical revolution', the new science of gases, the isolation of oxygen, the nebular hypothesis in cosmology, the foundation of rational mechanics, and the birth pangs of biology, geology and psychology. It was, indeed, an age when knowledge was in ferment
Archaeology · Art · Historiography · Literature · History · History of Science and Medicine · History of Science and Natural History · Philosophy
The Great Instauration of the Eighteenth Century
Du Châtelet and the Rhetoric of Science
Energy and the Autonomy of Middle-Class Work
The Image of the Man of Science
Adam Smith's Debts to Nature
David Hume on Experimental Natural Philosophy, Money, and Fluids
The history of psychological categories
The Lenoir thesis revisited
Physiologists, physicians, and physical educators
Between biology and chemistry in the Enlightenment
Eighteenth-century geography
The social nature of map making in the Scottish enlightenment c .1682‐ c .1832
On the Jesuit Edition of Newton’s Principia. Science and Advanced Researches in the Western Civilization
Science in the Enlightenment, Revisited
The empiric experience and the practice of autonomy
From personality to party
Collecting airs and ideas
Durkheim and Mauss revisited
Hermeneutics, Semiotics, and the 19th-Century Quest for a Corporeal Self
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1982 - 2023 (42) |
| Highly cited | No |