Science in the Enlightenment : an encyclopedia / William E. Burns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burns, William E.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

ABC-CLIO's history of science series

ABC-CLIO'S HISTORY OF SCIENCE SERIES.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--History--Encyclopedias.

Science.

Science--history.

History.

Medical Subjects:

Science--history.

Genre:

Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 355 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Abc-clio, [2003]

Contents:

Academies and scientific societies

Agriculture

Alembert, Jean Le Rond d' (1717-1783)

American Philosophical Society

Ampère, André-Marie (1775-1836)

Anatomy

Arcueil, Society of

Astronomy

Atomism

Avogadro, Amedeo (1776-1856)

Ballooning

Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820)

Bartram Family

Bassi, Laure Maria Catarina (1711-1778)

Beddoes, Thomas (1760-1808)

Berlin Academy

Bernoulli Family

Berthollet, Claude-Louis (1748-1822)

Berzelius, Jöns Jakob (1779-1848)

Bichat, Marie-François-Xavier (1771-1802)

Black, Joseph (1728-1799)

Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich (1752-1840)

Boerhaave, Hermann (1668-1738)

Bologna Academy of Sciences

Bonnet, Charles (1720-1793)

Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe (1711-1787)

Botanical gardens

Botany

Böttger, Johann Friedrich (1682-1719)

Bradley, James (1693-1762)

Brown, Robert (1773-1858)

Brunonianism

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1707-1788)

Calorimeters

Cartesianism

Cassini Family

Cavendish, Henry (1731-1810)

Châtelet, Gabrielle-Émilie du (1706-1749)

Chemical nomenclature

Chemistry

Cheyne, George (1671-1743)

Colonial science

Comets

Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de (1715-1780)

Condorcet, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de (1743-1794)

Cook, James (1728-1779)

Coudray, Angelique Marguerite Le Boursier du (1714?-1794)

Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de (1736-1806)

Crell, Lorenz Florens Friedrich Von (1744-1816)

Cuvier, Georges (1769-1832)

Dalton, John (1766-1844)

Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)

Davy, Sir Humphry (1778-1829)

Derby Philosophical Society

Desaguliers, John Theophilus (1683-1744)

Diderot, Denis (1713-1784)

Earthquakes

Education

Egyptian expedition

Electricity

Embryology

Encyclopedias

The Enlightenment

Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783)

Exploration, discovery, and colonization

Fossils

Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)

Freemasonry

French Revolution

Galvani, Luigi (1737-1798)

Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855)

Gay-Lussac, Joseph-Louis (1778-1850)

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Étienne (1772-1844)

Geology

Germain, Sophie (1776-1831

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)

Hales, Stephen (1677-1761)

Haller, Albrecht von (1708-1777)

Hauksbee, Francis (c. 1666-1713)

Heat

Herschel Family

Hospitals

Humboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859)

Hunter Family

Hutchinsonianism

Hutton, James (1726-1797)

Hygrometers

Illustration

Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg

Industrialization

Instrument making

Japan, western science in

Jewish culture

Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)

Kew Gardens

Klaproth, Martin Heinrich (1743-1817)

Lagrange, Joseph-Louis (1736-1813)

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine de Monet de (1744-1829)

La Mettrie, Julien Offroy de (1709-1751)

Laplace, Pierre-Simon de (1749-1827)

Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent (1743-1794)

Leiden Jars

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph (1742-1799)

Lightning rods

Linnaeus, Carolus (1707-1778)

Linnean Society

Literature

Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich (1711-1765)

Longitude problem

Lunar Society of Birmingham

Macquer, Pierre Joseph (1718-1784)

Madness

Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society

Marggraf, Andreas Sigismund (1709-1782)

Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811)

Masturbation

Materialism

Mathematics

Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de (1698-1759)

Mayer, Johann Tobias (1723-1762)

Mechanics

Medicine

Mesmerism and animal magnetism

Meteorology

Meteors and meteorites

Metric system

Michaux Family

Microscopes

Midwives

Museum of Natural History (Paris)

Museums

Napoleonic science

Nationalism

Natural Theology

Naturphilosophie

Newtonianism

Nollet, Jean-Antoine (1700-1770)

Observatories

Oceanography

Optics

Orsted, Hans Christian (1777-1851)

Periodicals

Phlogiston

Physics

Physiology

Plant Physiology

Poliniere, Pierre (1671-1734)

Polyps

Popularization

Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)

Probability

Psychology

Race

Rain gauges

Reil, Johann Christian (1759-1813)

Religion

Ritter, Johann Wilhelm (1776-1810)

Romanticism

Royal Academy of Sciences

Royal Botanical Expedition (Spain)

Royal Society

Royal Society of Edinburgh

Royal Society of Medicine (France)

Royal Swedish Academy of Science

Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count (1753-1814)

Scheele, Carl Wilhelm (1742-1786)

Sexual difference

Sloane, Sir Hans (1660-1753)

Smallpox inoculation

Spallanzani, Lazzaro (1729-1799)

Stahl, Georg Ernst (1660-1734)

Surgeons and surgery

Technology and engineering

Telescopes

Thermometers

Toft case

Transits

Universities

University of Edinburgh

University of Halle

University of Leiden

Vitalism

Volcanoes

Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio (1745-1827)

Voltaire (1694-1778)

War

Werner, Abraham Gottlob (1750-1817)

Whiston, William (1667-1752)

Wolff, Christian (1679-1754)

Women

Zoology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315- 323) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN:

1576078868

1576078876

OCLC:

52558972

Publisher Number:

99990106850

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