The Uses of science in the age of Newton /
The Uses of science in the age of Newton / [print]
edited by John G. Burke.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)1983.
- 204 pages ; 25 cm.
- Publications from the Clark Library professorship, UCLA ; 8 .
- Publications from the Clark Library professorship, UCLA ; 8. .
Includes bibliographical references.
The poets and science in seventeenth-century England Oldenburg, the Philosophical transactions, and technology The birth of the modern scientific instrument, 1550-1700 Robert Hooke, mechanical technology, and scientific investigation Gunnery, science, and the Royal Society Nautical astronomy and the problem of longitude Tory-High church opposition to science and scientism in the eighteenth century: the works of John Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Johnson Earl Miner -- Marie Boas Hall -- Albert Van Helden -- Richard S. Westfall -- A. Rupert Hall -- David W. Waters -- Richard Olson.
9780520049703
83001223
GB85-6427
Science--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Science--Philosophy--History.
Q127 Q127.B959.U847 1983
Includes bibliographical references.
The poets and science in seventeenth-century England Oldenburg, the Philosophical transactions, and technology The birth of the modern scientific instrument, 1550-1700 Robert Hooke, mechanical technology, and scientific investigation Gunnery, science, and the Royal Society Nautical astronomy and the problem of longitude Tory-High church opposition to science and scientism in the eighteenth century: the works of John Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Johnson Earl Miner -- Marie Boas Hall -- Albert Van Helden -- Richard S. Westfall -- A. Rupert Hall -- David W. Waters -- Richard Olson.
9780520049703
83001223
GB85-6427
Science--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Science--Philosophy--History.
Q127 Q127.B959.U847 1983