Science and the shape of orthodoxy : intellectual change in late seventeenth-century Britain / Michael Hunter
1995, First Edition. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : Boydell Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #457623
ISBN: 0851155944
Physical description; xii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Partial contents Introduction: Fifteen Essays and a New Theory of Intellectual Change -- 1. Elias Ashmole, 1617-1692: The Founder of the Ashmolean Museum and his World -- Appendix: The Foundation of the Ashmolean Museum -- 2. The Making of Christopher Wren -- 3. John Evelyn in the 1650s: a Virtuoso in Quest of a Role -- 4. The Debate over Science -- 5. First Steps in Institutionalization: The Role of the Royal Society of London -- 6. The Cabinet Institutionalized: The Royal Society's 'Repository' and its Background -- Appendix: A Note on Early English Usage of the Word 'Museum' -- 7. The Crown, the Public and the New Science, 1689-1702 -- 8. The Early Royal Society and the Shape of Knowledge -- 9. The Royal Society and the Origins of British Archaeology -- 10. The Origins of the Oxford University Press -- 11. Ancients, Moderns, Philologists and Scientists -- 12. Science and Heterodoxy: An Early Modern Problem Reconsidered. Subjects; Royal Society (Great Britain). 1600-1699. Geschichte 1600-1700. 17th century. Science Great Britain History 17th century. Science history.
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