Science for a Polite Society Gender, Culture, and the Demonstration of Enlightenment

Geoffrey V. Sutton

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Traditional accounts of the scientific revolution focus on such thinkers as Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, and usually portray it as a process of steady, rational progress. There is another side to this story, and its protagonists are more likely to be women than men, dilettante aristocrats than highly educated natural philosophers. The setting i

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Book information

ISBN:	9780367317898
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	13 Sep 2019
DEWEY:	306.4509032
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	407
Weight:	453g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	28mm