Science and society 1600-1900 / by P. M. Rattansi [and 5 others] ; edited by Peter Mathias.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rattansi, Piyo, author.

Contributor:

Mathias, Peter, editor, author.

Cambridge University Press, publisher.

Alden Press, printer.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and state.

Science--History.

Science.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

Oxford : Alden press.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : University Press, 1972.

Contents:

The social interpretation of science in the seventeenth century / P.M. Rattansi

Science, technology and utopia in the seventeenth century / A. Rupert Hall

Who unbound Prometheus? Science and technnical change, 1600-1800 / Peter Mathias

Science and the steam engine, 1790-1825 / D.S.L. Cardwell

Gateways to death? Medicine, hospitals and mortality, 1700-1850 / E.M. Sigsworth

Resources of science in victorian England : the endowment of science movement, 1868-1900 / Roy M. MacLeod.

Notes:

Based on series of lectures at Cambridge, 1968.

"© Cambridge University Press 1972"--verso of title page.

"Printed in Great Britain by Alden & Mowbray Ltd at the Alden Press, Oxford"--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Kislak Center copy retains dust jacket.

ISBN:

0521083753

OCLC:

370312