The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750 - Hardcover

Stewart, Larry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521417007 ISBN 13: 9780521417006

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

In The Rise of Public Science, Larry Stewart explores social attitudes towards the claims and the activities of the natural philosophers in Britain from the Restoration to the first stage of industrialisation. By examining the activities and the promotions in which Newton's disciples became involved, Stewart sheds light on prevailing and practising attitudes to science and technology before the Industrial Revolution. Troubled by claims of social and political legitimacy, the Newtonian public lecturers took Newton's science far beyond the Royal Society into a world of projectors, patents, and some of the great entrepreneurial scandals of the early eighteenth century.

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Book Description

Larry Stewart explores social attitudes towards the claims and the activities of the natural philosophers especially Newton's theories and disiples in Britain from the Restoration to the first stage of industrialisation.

Review

'Larry Stewart's superb book ... revolutionizes our understanding of how Britain adopted Newtonianism and what this means.' The Times Literary Supplement

' ... a useful account of a crucial episode in the origins of the ethos of modern industrial society.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521417007
• ISBN 13: 9780521417006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 489