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Histories of science : natural philosophy in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / edited by David Alff and Danielle Spratt.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--History--18th century.
- Science.
- Natural history--18th century--Historiography.
- Natural history.
- Literature and science--History--18th century.
- Literature and science.
- Philosophy and science--History--18th century.
- Philosophy and science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Natural philosophy in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2025]
- Contents:
- Part I. Rhetoric
- Science for the Birds: Figurative Language and The History of the Royal Society / Jess Keiser
- Centlivre's Frankenstein: Science, Authorship, and Monstrous (Re)Productions in A Bold Stroke for a Wife / Melissa Bailes
- Picturing Air: The Rhetoric of Nondescription in Robert Boyle's New Experiments Physico-mechanical and Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year / Vivian Zuluaga Papp
- Romancing the Placebo / Jayne Lewis
- Part II. Reception
- The "Eye of Mr. Anson Himself": Art and Evanescence in A Voyage Round the World (1748) / Anne M. Thell
- Literary Technologies of the Sextant in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Aaron R. Hanlon
- Newtonian Legacies in William Hogarth's A Scene from The Indian Emperour, or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards / Laura Miller
- "Fully Prov'd by the Plates": Desaguliers' Unauthorized System / Al Coppola
- Part III. Embodiment
- Plants, Principles, Strata: John Woodward's Improbable Corpuscles / Helen Thompson
- "Mice in a Barn" or "Every Little Miss"? Figurative Imagination and Demographic Narratives of the Long Eighteenth Century / Lisa Forman Cody
- Jane Barker and Virgin Anatomy / Frank Boyle
- Margaret Cavendish, a Sensitive Witness / Kristin M. Girten
- Maria Edgeworth's Avian Entwinements: Experimental Science and the Cultivation of the Female Mind in Practical Education and Belinda / Adela Ramos
- Part IV. Environment
- The Hoe and the Plow: Plantation Labor Under the Somatic Energy Regime / Ramesh Mallipeddi
- Infrastructural Inversion at Clarens: St. Preux in the Garden / Eric Gidal
- Taxonomic Subversion and Vegetal Expansion in Charlotte Smith's "Beachy Head" / Anna K. Sagal
- Spicy Forests and Amboyna Burl: Dryden and the Ecology of Disaster / Rajani Sudan
- Geomythography: A Genealogy / Tobias Menely.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 22, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Histories of science
- ISBN:
- 9780813951706
- 0813951704
- Publisher Number:
- 40032790967
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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