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The romance of science : essays in honour of Trevor H. Levere. / Jed Buchwald, Larry Stewart, editors.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
©2017
Description
ix, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
Q125 .R733 2017
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Science
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History
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Editor
Buchwald, Jed Z.
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Stewart, Larry, 1946-
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Honoree
Levere, Trevor Harvey
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Festschriften
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Series
Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 52.
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Archimedes : new studies in the history and philosophy of science and technology ; volume 52
Summary note
"The Romance of Science pays tribute to the wide-ranging and highly influential work of Trevor Levere, historian of science and author of Poetry Realised in Nature, Transforming Matter, Science and the Canadian Arctic, Affinity and Matter and other significant inquiries in the history of modern science. Expanding on Levere's many themes and interests, The Romance of Science assembles historians of science -- all influenced by Levere's work -- to explore such matters as the place and space of instruments in science, the role and meaning of science museums, poetry in nature, chemical warfare and warfare in nature, science in Canada and the Arctic, Romanticism, aesthetics and morals in natural philosophy, and the "dismal science" of economics. The Romance of Science explores the interactions between science's romantic, material, institutional and economic engagements with Nature."-- $c Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Ernie Hamm: Trevor Levere, Affinities that Matter
2. Victor Boantza: Elements, Instruments, and Menstruums: Boerhaave's Imponderable Fire Between Chemical Masterpiece and Physical Axiom
3. Larry Stewart, At the Medical Edge or, THE BEDDOES EFFECT
4. David Philip Miller, 'Men of Letters' and 'Men of Press Copies': The Cultures of James Watt's Copying Machine
5. David Knight, Poetry, Chemistry, and Wisdom
6. Robert Anderson, Facts or Fantasies in the Chemistry Lecture Theatre?
7. Janis Langins, Poetry In War And War In Nature. From Vauban To Naturphilosophie To Clausewitz
8. Greg Good, John Herschel's Geology: The Cape of Good Hope in the 1830s
9. Margaret Schabas, More Food for Thought: Mill, Coleridge and the Dismal Science of Economics
10. Gordon McOuat, "These can not all have an interest for England": Chance Events, Beauty and The Trouble with Romanticism in Britain
11. Andrew Ede, Science Born of Poison, Fire and Smoke: Chemical Warfare and the Origins of Big Science
12. Jed Buchwald, Politics, Morality, Innovation, and Misrepresentation in Physical Science and Technology
13. Jennifer Hubbard, Fishing an Extreme Environment: Science, Sovereignty and Hudson Bay
14. David Pantalony, Collectors, Displays and Replicas in Context: What We Learn from Provenance Research in Science Museums
15. Suzanne Zeller, Context, Connections and Culture: The History of Science in Canada as a Field of Study.
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ISBN
9783319584355
3319584359
LCCN
2017944446
OCLC
982651822
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