The History of the Royal Society
Author | : Thomas Sprat |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2014-03-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781498089647 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1667 Edition.
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Author | : Thomas Sprat |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2014-03-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781498089647 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1667 Edition.
Author | : Robert Hooke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1665 |
Genre | : Hair |
ISBN | : |
At one time, Hooke was a research assistant to Robert Boyle. He is believed to be one of the greatest inventive geniuses of all time and constructed one of the most famous of the early compound microscopes.
Author | : Adrian Tinniswood |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 154167376X |
An engaging new history of the Royal Society of London, the club that created modern scientific thought Founded in 1660 to advance knowledge through experimentally verified facts, The Royal Society of London is now one of the preeminent scientific institutions of the world. It published the world's first science journal, and has counted scientific luminaries from Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking among its members. However, the road to truth was often bumpy. In its early years-while bickering, hounding its members for dues, and failing to create its own museum-members also performed sheep to human blood transfusions, and experimented with unicorn horns. In his characteristically accessible and lively style, Adrian Tinniswood charts the Society's evolution from poisoning puppies to the discovery of DNA, and reminds us of the increasing relevance of its motto for the modern world: Nullius in Verba-Take no one's word for it.
Author | : Steven Shapin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2011-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022614884X |
How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth-century England. Steven Shapin paints a vivid picture of the relations between gentlemanly culture and scientific practice. He argues that problems of credibility in science were practically solved through the codes and conventions of genteel conduct: trust, civility, honor, and integrity. These codes formed, and arguably still form, an important basis for securing reliable knowledge about the natural world. Shapin uses detailed historical narrative to argue about the establishment of factual knowledge both in science and in everyday practice. Accounts of the mores and manners of gentlemen-philosophers are used to illustrate Shapin's broad claim that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge. Knowledge-making is always a collective enterprise: people have to know whom to trust in order to know something about the natural world.
Author | : Tina Skouen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2014-11-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004283706 |
The Royal Society’s establishment in 1660 signaled a new beginning for the rhetoric of science, mainly because the organization’s founders advocated a modern plain style for scientific communication. Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society aims to initiate fresh debates about this watershed event in the history of rhetoric and science. In the last twenty years, scholars in numerous disciplines have produced significant work, ranging from theoretical essays to case studies of founding members such as Wilkins, Hooke and Boyle. This is the first book to collect in one volume the key contributions. The newly written introduction by editors Skouen and Stark places the reprinted essays into perspective by evaluating the Society’s pioneering role in shaping modern scholarly communication.
Author | : John Louis Emil Dreyer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2014-03-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110806860X |
Published in 1923, this work surveys the world's oldest astronomical society, with chapters contributed by leading contemporary astronomers.
Author | : Venki Ramakrishnan |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 046509337X |
A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule "Ramakrishnan's writing is so honest, lucid and engaging that I could not put this book down until I had read to the very end." -- Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome -- an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms -- that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome, a fundamental discovery that both advances our knowledge of all life and could lead to the development of better antibiotics against life-threatening diseases. But this is also a human story of Ramakrishnan's unlikely journey, from his first fumbling experiments in a biology lab to being the dark horse in a fierce competition with some of the world's best scientists. In the end, Gene Machine is a frank insider's account of the pursuit of high-stakes science.
Author | : Michael Cyril William Hunter |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780754655688 |
The papers, letters and ancillary manuscripts of the influential scientist, Robert Boyle (1627-91) have been at the Royal Society since 1769--a catalogue of them first published in 1992. This volume presents that catalogue in completely revised form, updated to do justice to the extensive use made of the archive in the definitive editions of Boyle's Works and Correspondence published between 1999 and 2001. The book also includes studies of the history of the archive and its components, in which significant conclusions are drawn about the development of Boyle's ideas. This book will be indispensable to anyone with a serious interest in Boyle.
Author | : Carey McIntosh |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2020-05-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004430636 |
A study of English semantics during the Enlightenment. New words 1650–1800 reflect the new middle-class culture of sociability, commerce, and science. Old mostly obsolete words illuminate the realities of working-class life, exhausting labor, dirt, outrageous sexism, magic, horses, bizarre food.