Science For A Polite Society
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This book is an intriguing re-examination of the social, cultural, and intellectual context of the origins of modern science. It shows that the French adopted science as basis for their enlightenment because of their personal fascination with philosophy of nature and the history of its creatures. Traditional accounts of the scientific revolution focus on such thinkers as Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, and usually portray it as a process of steady, rational progress. There is another side to this story, and its protagonists are more likely to be women than men, dilettante aristocrats than highly educated natural philosophers. The setting i
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This book is an intriguing re-examination of the social, cultural, and intellectual context of the origins of modern science. It shows that the French adopted science as basis for their enlightenment because of their personal fascination with philosophy of nature and the history of its creatures. Traditional accounts of the scientific revolution focus on such thinkers as Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, and usually portray it as a process of steady, rational progress. There is another side to this story, and its protagonists are more likely to be women than men, dilettante aristocrats than highly educated natural philosophers. The setting i
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