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The Newtonians and the English Revolution 1689-1720 , Classics in the History and Philosophy of Science, volume 7
Gordon and Breach , Classics in the History and Philosophy of Science Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1990 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's brow printed wrappers, titles in gold grand In-8 1 vol. - 288 pages
Reprinted edition, 1990 (first was 1976) "Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface to the reprinted edition, Acknowledgments, Abbreviation, Text, 288 pages - Introduction - Latidudinarian social theory and the new philosophy - The Church and the Revolution of 1688-1689 - The Millenium - The Church, Newton, and the founding of the Boyle lectureship - The Boyle lectures and the social meaning of Newtonianism - The opposition : Freethinkers - Enthusiasts - Appendix, bibliographical note, Index - Margaret Jacob (born 9 June 1943) is an American historian of science. Best known for her studies of Isaac Newton and the development of Western scientific thought, Jacob has also written about the politics of writing history. - Newton and Robert Boyle's approach to the mechanical philosophy was promoted by rationalist pamphleteers as a viable alternative to the pantheists and enthusiasts, and was accepted hesitantly by orthodox preachers as well as dissident preachers like the latitudinarians. The clarity and simplicity of science was seen as a way to combat the emotional and metaphysical superlatives of both superstitious enthusiasm and the threat of atheism, and at the same time, the second wave of English deists used Newton's discoveries to demonstrate the possibility of a ""Natural Religion"". The attacks made against pre-Enlightenment ""magical thinking"", and the mystical elements of Christianity, were given their foundation with Boyle's mechanical conception of the universe. Newton gave Boyle's ideas their completion through mathematical proofs and, perhaps more importantly, was very successful in popularising them. (source : Wikipedia)" minor folding tracks on the wrappers which remains clean, inside is near fine, no markings, a rather nice copy
The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution
Alfred A. Knop - New-York , New Perspectives on European History Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1988 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's green printed wrappers, illustrated by an endgraving In-8 1 vol. - 288 pages
few black and white text-figures 1st edition paperback, 1988 Contents, Chapitres : Preface, Acknowledgments, Contents, xii, Text, 276 pages - Introduction - 1. Laying claim to an audience: the first prophets of the new science : The social context of Copernicanism - Galileo's confrontation with the Church - The effects of Galileo's condemnation - The danger of Naturalism and Enthusiasm - The social utility of science - The Baconian vision - Science in elite culture - 2. The social meaning of Cartesianism from the self to nature, and back to the state : Skepticism and Naturalism - Gassendi - Beeckman and the mechanical philosophy in the Netherlands - Cartesianism - The spread of Cartesianism - 3. Science in the crucible of the English revolution : Bacon and the Puritans - The impact of the Revolution - The reaction against sectarian radicalism - Hobbes - The Anglican origins of modern science - Isaac Newton and Restoration Cambridge - The revolution of 1688-1689 and the Newtonian synthesis - 4. Crisis and revolution : the Newtonian Enlightenment : The Threat of Absolutism - The failure of the old learning - Liberal Christianity - The power of science - Spinoza and Spinozism - The new culture of the lay elite - 5. The cultural origins of the first industrial revolution : The English Enlightenmen - Science and the industrial revolution - The spread of scientific education - The scientific societies - John Smeaton - Radical tendencies within industrial culture - 6. Scientific education and industrialization in Continental Europe : Science and the decline of the Dutch republic - Belgium - France - Italy - Thinking mechanically - 7. Sciences in the industrial revolution : The application of mechanical knowledge - Bristol, an early example of the application of mechanical science - The politics of mechanical applications - Bibliography, glossary, index light discoloration on the spine (sun-faded), else near fine copy, no markings, inside is clean
Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Texte en anglais
Oxford University Press, 1991- In 8°, 304 pp, cartonnage souple éditeur
The Newtonians and the English Revolution 1689-1720.
Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, (1976). Orig. full cloth with dustjacket. 288 pp.
