Richards, Joan L. (Author)
Yale University Press
Publication date: 2021
Language: English
Physical Details: 456
An intimate, accessible history of British intellectual development across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the story of one family This book recounts the story of three Cambridge-educated Englishmen and the women with whom they chose to share their commitment to reason in all parts of their lives. The reason this family embraced was an essentially human power with the potential to generate true insight into all aspects of the world. In exploring the ways reason permeated three generations of English experience, this book casts new light on key developments in English cultural and political history, from the religious conformism of the eighteenth century through the Napoleonic era into the Industrial Revolution and prosperity of the Victorian age. At the same time, it restores the rich world of the essentially meditative, rational sciences of theology, astronomy, mathematics, and logic to their proper place in the English intellectual landscape. Following the development of their views over the course of an eventful one hundred years of English history illuminates the fine structure of ways reason still operates in our world.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Book
Sandro Tirini;
(2021)
Vita di Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, contessa di Rumford
(/p/isis/citation/CBB882603015/)
Article
Wolfgang Steinicke;
(2023)
Visitors to the Herschels between 1777 and 1822
(/p/isis/citation/CBB432491035/)
Book
Wolfgang Steinicke;
(2021)
William Herschel Discoverer of the Deep Sky: The epochal work of the greatest visual observer and his talented sister Caroline
(/p/isis/citation/CBB218557286/)
Article
Robert Fleck;
(2021)
Fundamental Themes in Physics from the History of Art
(/p/isis/citation/CBB417345318/)
Book
Jens Hanssen;
Max Weiss;
(2016)
Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda
(/p/isis/citation/CBB700796761/)
Book
Angela G. Ray;
Paul Stob;
(2018)
Thinking Together: Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century
(/p/isis/citation/CBB086840210/)
Book
Johannes Feichtinger;
Franz L. Fillafer;
Jan Surman;
(2018)
The Worlds of Positivism: A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930
(/p/isis/citation/CBB298923215/)
Book
Viktor Karády;
Péter Tibor Nagy;
(2019)
Sociology in Hungary: A social, political and institutional history
(/p/isis/citation/CBB156614908/)
Book
Alain Giami;
Sharman Levinson;
(2021)
Histories of Sexology: Between Science and Politics
(/p/isis/citation/CBB565083012/)
Book
Alain Giami;
Sharman Levinson;
(2021)
Histories of Sexology: Between Science and Politics
(/p/isis/citation/CBB299727196/)
Book
Robert SCHOFIELD;
(1963)
The Lunar Society of Birmingham: A Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth-Century England
(/p/isis/citation/CBB589225210/)
Book
Courtney Weiss Smith;
(2015)
Empiricist Devotions: Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England
(/p/isis/citation/CBB186685674/)
Book
Jamie C. Kassler;
(2019)
Newton’s Sensorium: Anatomy of a Concept
(/p/isis/citation/CBB959510708/)
Article
Porter, Theodore;
(2002)
Statistical Utopianism in an Age of Aristocratic Efficiency
(/p/isis/citation/CBB000200091/)
Chapter
Opitz, Donald L.;
(2012)
“Not merely wifely devotion”: Collaborating in the Construction of Science at Terling Place
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001202392/)
Article
Robert C. Allen;
(2019)
Class structure and inequality during the industrial revolution: Lessons from England's social tables, 1688–1867
(/p/isis/citation/CBB418072614/)
Book
Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette;
Blondel, Christine;
(2008)
Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment
(/p/isis/citation/CBB000850395/)
Chapter
Frank A. J. L. James;
(2018)
The Subversive Humphry Davy: Aristocracy and Establishing Chemical Research Laboratories in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century England
(/p/isis/citation/CBB343237491/)
Book
Turner, Anthony John;
(2006)
Après Gassendi: son influence et sa réputation, essai: avec l'histoire des collections scientifiques et un catalogue des instruments et appareils concernant les sciences exactes appartenant au Musée Gassendi à Digne-les-Bains
(/p/isis/citation/CBB000772102/)
Article
Wagner Tadeu Jardim;
Andreia Guerra;
Hermann Schiffer;
(2021)
History of Science in Physics Teaching
(/p/isis/citation/CBB069305397/)
Be the first to comment!