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ISBN10: 0820450294, ISBN13: 9780820450292, [publisher: Frankfurt, Bern: Lang] Hardcover XI, 181 S. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Setting the Stage: The Early German Enlightenment -- Making Knowledge Public -- The Birth of the Lexicons: Amaranthes' Useful, Gallant, and Curious Ladies' Lexicon (1715, 1739, 1773) -- Didactic Poetry -- Dialogue Writing: The Example of Algarotti's Newtonianism for the Ladies -- Public Displays of Science: The Life and Times of Electricity in Leipzig, 1740-1750: Trivial Entertainment or Serious Study? ISBN 9780820450292 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 315 [Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2003]
ISBN10: 0820450294, ISBN13: 9780820450292, [publisher: Frankfurt, Bern: Lang] Hardcover XI, 181 S. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Setting the Stage: The Early German Enlightenment -- Making Knowledge Public -- The Birth of the Lexicons: Amaranthes' Useful, Gallant, and Curious Ladies' Lexicon (1715, 1739, 1773) -- Didactic Poetry -- Dialogue Writing: The Example of Algarotti's Newtonianism for the Ladies -- Public Displays of Science: The Life and Times of Electricity in Leipzig, 1740-1750: Trivial Entertainment or Serious Study? ISBN 9780820450292 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 315 [Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2003]
ISBN10: 0820450294, ISBN13: 9780820450292, [publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers] Hardcover The Popularization of Science in Leipzig, 1687-1750. This study challenges the view of popularization that contrasts pure, genuine scientific knowledge against popularized knowledge conceived as a distortion, degradation. Instead, it is argued that "popularizing" efforts neither explain the facts of science to men and women who had no professional interest in it nor mark the triumphal march of the Newtonian paradigm all over Europe. This study is about science as a form of culture that claimed to make God's plan in nature accessible to an audience traditionally excluded from the world of learning. In the course of the eighteenth century, lay people came to see science as an authority beyond criticism. The cultural status that science acquired continued for centuries and, even though it has been challenged in our times, science is still one of our main sources of meaning. In spite of universalist claims, eighteenth-century philosophers and popularizers did not grant women-traditionally the emblem of the uneducated-access to the sanctuary of science. Rather, the popularization of science functioned as an effective means for preaching the Enlightenment gospel to an educated laity. Popular science works are fragments in the composition of a new human and social ideal, in which science plays a crucial part. They are key building blocks in the ...
ISBN10: 0820450294, ISBN13: 9780820450292, [publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers] Hardcover The Popularization of Science in Leipzig, 1687-1750. This study challenges the view of popularization that contrasts pure, genuine scientific knowledge against popularized knowledge conceived as a distortion, degradation. Instead, it is argued that "popularizing" efforts neither explain the facts of science to men and women who had no professional interest in it nor mark the triumphal march of the Newtonian paradigm all over Europe. This study is about science as a form of culture that claimed to make God's plan in nature accessible to an audience traditionally excluded from the world of learning. In the course of the eighteenth century, lay people came to see science as an authority beyond criticism. The cultural status that science acquired continued for centuries and, even though it has been challenged in our times, science is still one of our main sources of meaning. In spite of universalist claims, eighteenth-century philosophers and popularizers did not grant women-traditionally the emblem of the uneducated-access to the sanctuary of science. Rather, the popularization of science functioned as an effective means for preaching the Enlightenment gospel to an educated laity. Popular science works are fragments in the composition of a new human and social ideal, in which science plays a crucial part. They are key building blocks in the ...
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, Date: 2003-05-21. Hardcover. New. New 2003. Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers ISBN 0820450294 9780820450292 [US]
ISBN10: 0820450294, ISBN13: 9780820450292, [publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers] Hardcover New [New Paltz, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]
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