Jan Golinski

Science as Public Culture

Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760 1820

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the development of chemistry in Britain 1760 1820 and relates it to civic life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780521659529
• ISBN-10: 0521659523
• Artikelnr.: 22307997

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of illustrations
1. Introduction: science as public culture
2. 'The study of a gentlemen': chemistry as a public science in the Scottish Enlightenment
3. Joseph Priestley and the English Enlightement
4. Airs and their uses
5. The coming of the chemical revolution
6. 'Dr Beddoes's Breath': nitrous oxide and the culmination of Enlightenment medical chemistry
7. Humphry Davy: the public face of genius
8. Analysis, education and the chemical community
Bibliography
Index.