The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521572439)

This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century. It is designed to be read as both a narrative and an interpretation, and also to be used as a work of reference. While prime attention is paid to Western science, space is also given to science in traditional cultures and to colonial science. The contributors, world leaders in their respective specialties, engage with current historiographical and methodological controversies and strike out positions of their own.

Author: Roy Porter
ISBN-10: 0521572436
ISBN-13: 9780521572439
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2003
Pages: 942
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 2.49d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2004 pg. 930