Enlightenment Science In The Romantic Era
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Author | : Evan M. Melhado |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2003-02-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521531245 |
Joseph Berzelius (1779-1848), one of the world's leading scientists in the first half of the nineteenth century, dominated the field of chemistry, animated the cultural life of his native Sweden, and served for three decades as secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Despite his immense stature, modern studies have underestimated his significance. This volume remedies the scarcity of accessible, modern assessments of Berzelius by bringing to a broad audience the results of recent scholarship, and it offers an enhanced assessment of his originality and influence.
Author | : Duncan Wu |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1999-10-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780631218777 |
The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.
Author | : John Tresch |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2012-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226812200 |
Introduction: Mechanical Romanticism -- DEVICES OF COSMIC UNITY -- Ampère's Experiments: Contours of a Cosmic Cubstance -- Humboldt's Instruments: Even the Tools Will Be Free -- Arago's Daguerreotype: The Labor Theory of Knowledge -- SPECTACLES OF CREATION AND METAMORPHOSIS -- The Devil's Opera: Fantastic Physiospiritualism -- Monsters, Machine-Men, Magicians: The Automaton in the Garden -- ENGINEERS OF ARTIFICIAL PARADISES -- Saint-Simonian Engines: Love and Conversions -- Leroux's Pianotype: The Organogenesis of Humanity -- Comte's Calendar: From Infinite Universe to Closed World -- Conclusion: Afterlives of the Romantic Machine.
Author | : Dr. Andrew Cunningham |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1990-06-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521356855 |
This book presents a series of essays which focus on the role of Romantic philosophy and ideology in the sciences.
Author | : Tim Fulford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2004-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521829199 |
Examines the massive impact of colonial exploration on British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s.
Author | : David Knight |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2016-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317242181 |
First published in 1998. The Romantic Era was a time when society, religion and other beliefs, and science were all in flux. The idea that the universe was a great clock, and that men were little clocks, all built by a divine watchmaker, was giving way to a more dynamic and pantheistic way of thinking. A new language was invented for chemistry, replacing metaphor with algebra; and scientific illustration came to play the role of a visual language, deeply involved with theory. A scientific community came gradually into being as the 19th century wore on. The papers which compose this book have appeared in a wide range of books and journals; together with the new introduction they illuminate science and its context in the Romantic Era and follow its effects in the 19th century.
Author | : Richard Holmes |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 2009-07-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0307378322 |
The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery—astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical—swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution. Through the lives of William Herschel and his sister Caroline, who forever changed the public conception of the solar system; of Humphry Davy, whose near-suicidal gas experiments revolutionized chemistry; and of the great Romantic writers, from Mary Shelley to Coleridge and Keats, who were inspired by the scientific breakthroughs of their day, Holmes brings to life the era in which we first realized both the awe-inspiring and the frightening possibilities of science—an era whose consequences are with us still. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Richard Holmes's Falling Upwards.
Author | : Jon Klancher |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2013-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107029104 |
This book discusses how Romantic-age writers and new cultural institutions transformed ideas of knowledge inherited from the early-modern period.
Author | : Stephanie O'Rourke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2021-11-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1316519023 |
Innovative, alternative account of romanticism, exploring how art and science together contested the evidentiary authority of the human body.
Author | : Daniel J. Nicholson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198779631 |
"The majority of the papers herein originated at the workshop 'Process Philosophy of Biology' ... held in Exeter in November 2014."--Page vii.