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The Uses of science in the age of Newton / edited by John G. Burke. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publications from the Clark Library professorship, UCLA ; 8.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)1983.Description: 204 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780520049703
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • Q127
  • Q127.B959.U847 1983
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Contents:
The poets and science in seventeenth-century England Earl Miner -- Oldenburg, the Philosophical transactions, and technology Marie Boas Hall -- The birth of the modern scientific instrument, 1550-1700 Albert Van Helden -- Robert Hooke, mechanical technology, and scientific investigation Richard S. Westfall -- Gunnery, science, and the Royal Society A. Rupert Hall -- Nautical astronomy and the problem of longitude David W. Waters -- Tory-High church opposition to science and scientism in the eighteenth century: the works of John Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Johnson Richard Olson.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction Q127.G4U83 1983 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001523576

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The poets and science in seventeenth-century England Earl Miner -- Oldenburg, the Philosophical transactions, and technology Marie Boas Hall -- The birth of the modern scientific instrument, 1550-1700 Albert Van Helden -- Robert Hooke, mechanical technology, and scientific investigation Richard S. Westfall -- Gunnery, science, and the Royal Society A. Rupert Hall -- Nautical astronomy and the problem of longitude David W. Waters -- Tory-High church opposition to science and scientism in the eighteenth century: the works of John Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Johnson Richard Olson.

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