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Acolytes of nature : defining natural science in Germany, 1770-1850 / Denise Phillips.
LIBRA Q127.G3 P45 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Denise, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Germany--History--18th century.
- Science.
- Science--Germany--History--19th century.
- History.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 356 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Natural knowledge and the learned public in the enlightenment
- The expanding ranks of nature's friends
- Defending learned dignity
- Nature in a local microcosm
- Wooing the polite public
- The nature of the fatherland
- The wellspring of modernity
- The particularity of natural science.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226667379
- 0226667375
- OCLC:
- 756577795
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