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The Making of Modern Science
Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789-1914
Buch von David Knight
Sprache: Englisch

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Of all the inventions of the nineteenth century, the scientist is one of the most striking. In revolutionary France the science student, taught by men active in research, was born; and a generation later, the graduate student doing a PhD emerged in Germany. In 1833 the word 'scientist' was coined; forty years later science (increasingly specialised) was a becoming a profession. Men of science rivalled clerics and critics as sages; they were honoured as national treasures, and buried in state funerals. Their new ideas invigorated the life of the mind. Peripatetic congresses, great exhibitions, museums, technical colleges and laboratories blossomed; and new industries based on chemistry and electricity brought prosperity and power, economic and military. Eighteenth-century steam engines preceded understanding of the physics underlying them; but electric telegraphs and motors were applied science, based upon painstaking interpretation of nature. The ideas, discoveries and inventions of scientists transformed the world: lives were longer and healthier, cities and empires grew, societies became urban rather than agrarian, the local became global. And by the opening years of the twentieth century, science was spreading beyond Europe and North America, and women were beginning to be visible in the ranks of scientists.

Bringing together the people, events, and discoveries of this exciting period into a lively narrative, this book will be essential reading both for students of the history of science and for anyone interested in the foundations of the world as we know it today.
Of all the inventions of the nineteenth century, the scientist is one of the most striking. In revolutionary France the science student, taught by men active in research, was born; and a generation later, the graduate student doing a PhD emerged in Germany. In 1833 the word 'scientist' was coined; forty years later science (increasingly specialised) was a becoming a profession. Men of science rivalled clerics and critics as sages; they were honoured as national treasures, and buried in state funerals. Their new ideas invigorated the life of the mind. Peripatetic congresses, great exhibitions, museums, technical colleges and laboratories blossomed; and new industries based on chemistry and electricity brought prosperity and power, economic and military. Eighteenth-century steam engines preceded understanding of the physics underlying them; but electric telegraphs and motors were applied science, based upon painstaking interpretation of nature. The ideas, discoveries and inventions of scientists transformed the world: lives were longer and healthier, cities and empires grew, societies became urban rather than agrarian, the local became global. And by the opening years of the twentieth century, science was spreading beyond Europe and North America, and women were beginning to be visible in the ranks of scientists.

Bringing together the people, events, and discoveries of this exciting period into a lively narrative, this book will be essential reading both for students of the history of science and for anyone interested in the foundations of the world as we know it today.
Über den Autor
David Knight is Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Durham University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
* List of Illustrations
* Preface: the Age of Science
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction: Approaching the Past
* Chapter 1: Science in and after 1789
* Chapter 2: Science and its Languages
* Chapter 3: Applied Science
* Chapter 4: Intellectual Excitement
* Chapter 5: Healthy Lives
* Chapter 6: Laboratories
* Chapter 7: Bodies, Minds and Spirits
* Chapter 8: The Time of Triumph
* Chapter 9: Science and National Identities
* Chapter 10: Method and Heresy
* Chapter 11: Cultural Leadership
* Chapter 12: Into the New Century
* Timeline:
* Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 272
Inhalt: 272 S.
ISBN-13: 9780745636764
ISBN-10: 0745636764
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Knight, David
Hersteller: Polity Press
John Wiley & Sons
Maße: 244 x 161 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: David Knight
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2009
Gewicht: 0,673 kg
preigu-id: 101519106
Über den Autor
David Knight is Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Durham University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
* List of Illustrations
* Preface: the Age of Science
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction: Approaching the Past
* Chapter 1: Science in and after 1789
* Chapter 2: Science and its Languages
* Chapter 3: Applied Science
* Chapter 4: Intellectual Excitement
* Chapter 5: Healthy Lives
* Chapter 6: Laboratories
* Chapter 7: Bodies, Minds and Spirits
* Chapter 8: The Time of Triumph
* Chapter 9: Science and National Identities
* Chapter 10: Method and Heresy
* Chapter 11: Cultural Leadership
* Chapter 12: Into the New Century
* Timeline:
* Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 272
Inhalt: 272 S.
ISBN-13: 9780745636764
ISBN-10: 0745636764
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Knight, David
Hersteller: Polity Press
John Wiley & Sons
Maße: 244 x 161 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: David Knight
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2009
Gewicht: 0,673 kg
preigu-id: 101519106
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