The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319584355)

1. Ernie Hamm: Trevor Levere, Affinities that Matter2. Victor Boantza: Elements, Instruments, and Menstruums: Boerhaave's Imponderable Fire Between Chemical Masterpiece and Physical Axiom3. Larry Stewart, At the Medical Edge or, THE BEDDOES EFFECT4. David Philip Miller, 'Men of Letters' and 'Men of Press Copies': The Cultures of James Watt's Copying Machine5. David Knight, Poetry, Chemistry, and Wisdom6. 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 Clausewitz8. Greg Good, John Herschel's Geology: The Cape of Good Hope in the 1830s9. Margaret Schabas, More Food for Thought: Mill, Coleridge and the Dismal Science of Economics10. Gordon McOuat, "These can not all have an interest for England" Chance Events, Beauty and The Trouble with Romanticism in Britain11. Andrew Ede, Science Born of Poison, Fire and Smoke: Chemical Warfare and the Origins of Big Science12. Jed Buchwald, Politics, Morality, Innovation, and Misrepresentation in Physical Science and Technology13. Jennifer Hubbard, Fishing an Extreme Environment: Science, Sovereignty and Hudson Bay14. David Pantalony, Collectors, Displays and Replicas in Context: What We Learn from Provenance Research in Science Museums15. Suzanne Zeller, Context, Connections and Culture: The History of Science in Canada as a Field of Study

Author: Jed Buchwald
ISBN-10: 3319584359
ISBN-13: 9783319584355
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 07/17/2017
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d