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Science in the Enlightenment an encyclopedia
Title:
Science in the Enlightenment an encyclopedia
Author:
Burns, William E., 1959-
ISBN:
9781849723015

9781576078877
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Publication Information:
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2003.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxvii, 355 p.) : ill.
Series:
ABC-CLIO's history of science series

ABC-CLIO's history of science series.
Contents:
Academies and scientific societies -- Agriculture -- Alembert, Jean Le Rond d' (1717-1783) -- American Philosophical Society -- Ampère, André-Marie (1775-1836) -- Anatomy -- Arcueil, Society of -- Astronomy -- Atomism -- Avogadro, Amedeo (1776-1856) -- Ballooning -- Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820) -- Bartram Family -- Bassi, Laure Maria Catarina (1711-1778) -- Beddoes, Thomas (1760-1808) -- Berlin Academy -- Bernoulli Family -- Berthollet, Claude-Louis (1748-1822) -- Berzelius, Jöns Jakob (1779-1848) -- Bichat, Marie-François-Xavier (1771-1802) -- Black, Joseph (1728-1799) -- Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich (1752-1840) -- Boerhaave, Hermann (1668-1738) -- Bologna Academy of Sciences -- Bonnet, Charles (1720-1793) -- Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe (1711-1787) -- Botanical gardens -- Botany -- Böttger, Johann Friedrich (1682-1719) -- Bradley, James (1693-1762) -- Brown, Robert (1773-1858) -- Brunonianism -- Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1707-1788) -- Calorimeters -- Cartesianism -- Cassini Family -- Cavendish, Henry (1731-1810) -- Châtelet, Gabrielle-Émilie du (1706-1749) -- Chemical nomenclature -- Chemistry -- Cheyne, George (1671-1743) -- Colonial science -- Comets -- Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de (1715-1780) -- Condorcet, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de (1743-1794) -- Cook, James (1728-1779) -- Coudray, Angelique Marguerite Le Boursier du (1714?-1794) -- Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de (1736-1806) -- Crell, Lorenz Florens Friedrich Von (1744-1816) -- Cuvier, Georges (1769-1832) -- Dalton, John (1766-1844) -- Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802) -- Davy, Sir Humphry (1778-1829) -- Derby Philosophical Society -- Desaguliers, John Theophilus (1683-1744) -- Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) -- Earthquakes -- Education -- Egyptian expedition -- Electricity -- Embryology -- Encyclopedias -- The Enlightenment -- Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783) -- Exploration, discovery, and colonization -- Fossils -- Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) -- Freemasonry -- French Revolution -- Galvani, Luigi (1737-1798) -- Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855) -- Gay-Lussac, Joseph-Louis (1778-1850) -- Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Étienne (1772-1844) -- Geology -- Germain, Sophie (1776-1831 -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832) -- Hales, Stephen (1677-1761) -- Haller, Albrecht von (1708-1777) -- Hauksbee, Francis (c. 1666-1713) -- Heat -- Herschel Family -- Hospitals -- Humboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859) -- Hunter Family -- Hutchinsonianism -- Hutton, James (1726-1797) -- Hygrometers -- Illustration -- Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg -- Industrialization -- Instrument making -- Japan, western science in -- Jewish culture -- Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) -- Kew Gardens -- Klaproth, Martin Heinrich (1743-1817).

Lagrange, Joseph-Louis (1736-1813) -- Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine de Monet de (1744-1829) -- La Mettrie, Julien Offroy de (1709-1751) -- Laplace, Pierre-Simon de (1749-1827) -- Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent (1743-1794) -- Leiden Jars -- Lewis and Clark Expedition -- Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph (1742-1799) -- Lightning rods -- Linnaeus, Carolus (1707-1778) -- Linnean Society -- Literature -- Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich (1711-1765) -- Longitude problem -- Lunar Society of Birmingham -- Macquer, Pierre Joseph (1718-1784) -- Madness -- Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society -- Marggraf, Andreas Sigismund (1709-1782) -- Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811) -- Masturbation -- Materialism --Mathematics -- Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de (1698-1759) -- Mayer, Johann Tobias (1723-1762) --Mechanics -- Medicine -- Mesmerism and animal magnetism -- Meteorology -- Meteors and meteorites -- Metric system -- Michaux Family -- Microscopes -- Midwives -- Museum of Natural History (Paris) -- Museums -- Napoleonic science -- Nationalism -- Natural Theology -- Naturphilosophie -- Newtonianism -- Nollet, Jean-Antoine (1700-1770) -- Observatories -- Oceanography -- Optics -- Orsted, Hans Christian (1777-1851) -- Periodicals -- Phlogiston -- Physics -- Physiology -- Plant Physiology -- Poliniere, Pierre (1671-1734) -- Polyps -- Popularization -- Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804) -- Probability -- Psychology -- Race -- Rain gauges -- Reil, Johann Christian (1759-1813) -- Religion -- Ritter, Johann Wilhelm (1776-1810) -- Romanticism -- Royal Academy of Sciences -- Royal Botanical Expedition (Spain) -- Royal Society -- Royal Society of Edinburgh -- Royal Society of Medicine (France) -- Royal Swedish Academy of Science -- Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count (1753-1814) -- Scheele, Carl Wilhelm (1742-1786) -- Sexual difference -- Sloane, Sir Hans (1660-1753) -- Smallpox inoculation -- Spallanzani, Lazzaro (1729-1799) -- Stahl, Georg Ernst (1660-1734) -- Surgeons and surgery -- Technology and engineering -- Telescopes -- Thermometers -- Toft case -- Transits -- Universities -- University of Edinburgh -- University of Halle -- University of Leiden -- Vitalism -- Volcanoes -- Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio (1745-1827) -- Voltaire (1694-1778) -- War -- Werner, Abraham Gottlob (1750-1817) -- Whiston, William (1667-1752) -- Wolff, Christian (1679-1754) -- Women -- Zoology.
Abstract:
"The first introductory A-Z resource on the dynamic achievements in science from the late 1600s to 1820, including the great minds behind the developments and science's new cultural role."--Publisher's description.
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