The Developments of English science and Scientific Popularization between 1700 and 1800

Autor: ROSSI, Arcangelo
Přispěvatelé: R. Pisano, D. Capecchi, A. Lukesova, Rossi, Arcangelo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
Předmět:
Popis: In the climate of the late XVIII century’s industrial revolution a new opening took place in England towards scientific education and popularization. This opening can be fully understood only by paying attention to the whole dynamics of the connected social and cultural changes concerning, in particular, the relationships between science and technique. Here I focus the most essential of those changes marking the transition from the XVIII century’s natural philosophy to the XIX century’s English science and technology, accompanied by the development of a scientific popularization also linked to immediate productive interests in an almost consolidated bourgeois society.
Databáze: OpenAIRE