Book ID: CBB000049150

Philosophy and science in the Scottish Enlightenment (1988)

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Jones, Peter Murray (Editor)


Donald


Publication Date: 1988
Physical Details: vii + 230 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Papers on the history of science are entered separately in the present bibliography.


Reviewed By

Review Jack, M. (1991) Review of "Philosophy and science in the Scottish Enlightenment". Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 371-73). unapi

Review Fulton, H.L. (1991) Review of "Philosophy and science in the Scottish Enlightenment". Albion (pp. 177-78). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Donovan, Arthur (1988) The chemical revolution and the Enlightenment--and a proposal for the study of scientific change. In: Philosophy and science in the Scottish Enlightenment (p. 87). unapi

Chapter Wood, Paul (1988) Science and the Aberdeen Enlightenment. In: Philosophy and science in the Scottish Enlightenment (p. 39). unapi

Chapter Fenby, David V. (1988) Chemical reactivity and heat in the 18th century. In: Philosophy and science in the Scottish Enlightenment (p. 67). unapi

Chapter Withers, Charles W.J. (1988) Improvement and Enlightenment: Agriculture and natural history in the work of the Rev. Dr. John Walker (1731-1803). In: Philosophy and science in the Scottish Enlightenment (p. 102). unapi

Chapter Skinner, Andrew S. (1988) Sir James Steuart: Economic theory and policy. In: Philosophy and science in the Scottish Enlightenment (p. 117). unapi

Chapter Wokler, Robert (1988) Apes and races in the Scottish Enlightenment: Monboddo and Kames on the nature of man. In: Philosophy and science in the Scottish Enlightenment (p. 145). unapi

Chapter Markus, Thomas A. (1988) Buildings and the ordering of minds and bodies. In: Philosophy and science in the Scottish Enlightenment (p. 169). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Gascoigne, John
Crosland, Maurice P.
Cross, A. G.
Emerson, Roger L.
Force, James E.
Goldish, Matt
Journals
History of Science
Book Collector
British Journal for the History of Science
Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History): Historical Series
Historical Journal
History of Universities
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
St. Martin's Press
Unicopli
Concepts
Science
Public opinion
Jews
Museums
Encyclopedias (history)
Zionism
People
Banks, Joseph
Boulton, Matthew
Burke, Edmund
Fuchs, Nikolai Albertovich
Hume, David
Maty, Matthieu
Time Periods
18th century
Places
British Isles
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Lunar Society of Birmingham (England)
British Museum. Natural History
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