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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 28–46.
Published: 01 April 2014
..., arts and sciences (1752). Ballard has a contested legacy in women’s literary history: many critics draw attention to the exemplary bias in his collection and question his rhetorical aims. However, this article presents new manuscript evidence suggesting that Ballard’s initial research for the project...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 1–35.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of improving sociability with Steele's periodical in relation to such topics of local concern as London's relation to the regions, religion, politics, and the improving potential of conversation, there were also important areas of difference, notably the society's commitment to science and antiquarianism...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 63–84.
Published: 01 September 2023
... nineteenth century, the Lady's Magazine also included a significant amount of material on natural history and science, which had increasingly come to be considered suitable subjects of study for women. It is therefore not surprising to see Ann Murry's serial essay, “The Moral Zoologist, or Natural...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 111–142.
Published: 01 April 2012
..., 1848), 261.
22. James Delbourgo, “Sir Hans Sloane’s Milk Chocolate and the Whole
History of the Cacao,” Social Text 29 (2011): 88.
23. Steven Shapin, “ ‘A Scholar and a Gentleman’: The Problematic Identity of
the Scientific Practitioner in Early Modern England,” History of Science 29...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 226–233.
Published: 01 January 2011
...-
parative history of the human spirit, perhaps the most influential text on the
history of the human spirit of the period, sought to describe the development
of the arts and sciences. “He called it l’histoire de l’Esprit humain; the Germans
called it Geschichte des menschlichen Geistes (149). However...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 January 2021
... 1830 (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia, 2017). Pp. 256. $45 Over seventy years ago, Marjorie Hope Nicolson s Newton Demands the Muse: Newton s Opticks and the Eighteenth- Century Poets (1946) founded a tradition of literary criticism that was informed by the history of science and studies...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 158–177.
Published: 01 September 2021
...” with Sydney Smith and had “Interesting conversations with Dr. Wollaston on Botany and natural history” at a dinner in 1819 (Wright, 101). Despite her privileged position, however, Lady Holland did not escape the period's contradiction between encouraging and disdaining women's involvement in science...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 154–170.
Published: 01 April 2017
... field of biology (Foucault dates the modern science’s emergence
from natural history to around 1800).22
The South England of Austen’s novels was also the location for many
of the period’s most significant geological findings. It was William “Strata”
Smith (1769–1839) who in The Principle...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 63–92.
Published: 01 January 2014
... the course of the essays, however, Mr. Spectator tries to convert them
into instances of the universal laws regulating human affairs.
Fineman’s projected history of the anecdote might have included a sec-
tion on the anecdote in Baconian natural science, in which “the force of the
anecdote...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 81–89.
Published: 01 January 2008
...
chasm between natural history and natural philosophy, as applied to Earth
science, finally became obliterated.
That disciplinary conjunction, in large part, occurred because geoscien-
tists borrowed concepts and methodologies from the discipline of human his-
toriography. And, as applied...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 28–51.
Published: 01 January 2003
... of the
seventeenth century also impacted the relation between scientific and
poetic discourse, breaching the close relation between history and poetics.
In short, the new science unsettled relations between the fields of knowl-
edge and their textual forms...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 28–31.
Published: 01 September 2010
... how easy it is for scholars — especially, in Eco’s
opinion, the French — to breach the all-too-permeable boundaries between
reason and lunacy, science and the occult, history and myth. The Sophisians
occupy the no man’s land between these various binaries, for the order’s mem-
bers sought...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 133–147.
Published: 01 January 2021
... is there). It seems clear to this reviewer that Thompson is the Boylean experimentalist par excellence, and so there is per- haps more to say about how corpuscular science (or other forms of thought that emerge in the work in the revisionist history of science and natural philosophy) indicates a way of reading...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 63–67.
Published: 01 April 2021
... features in several other contributions. Patricia B. Craddock opens her essay by observing an apparent omission from Gibbon s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire where in his history of civilization is science? She correctly notes that Gibbon s notion of science would be broader than ours...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 44–75.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of objects gathered in the collections
curieuses, they seem to elude categorization. Historians of art, such as
Krzysztof Pomian and Antoine Schnapper, have focused on the art col-
lecting, while historians of natural history and science such as Yves Lais-
sus, Peter Dance, and Paula Findlen have...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 45–63.
Published: 01 April 2009
..., and then gradually gained control over it by domes-
tication of animals, agricultural development, and astronomy. Buffon here
went into great detail about how, from small beginnings, human science
advanced to the modern ability to create new species of plants and animals
(Buffon, Natural History, 9:381 – 410...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 168–187.
Published: 01 January 2011
... in airmail history. The first official airmail flight
by a heavier- than- air craft was a truly international affair. Authorized by
the Indian government, the flight was carried out in a British- built and
British- owned aircraft flown by a French pilot.1
This was in 1911. Airmail has...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 1–30.
Published: 01 September 2003
... “retarded provincial cultural development”: Ian Inkster,
“Aspects of the History of Science and Science Culture in Britain, 1780–1850 and
Beyond,” in Metropolis and Province: Science in British Culture, 1780–1850, ed.
Ian Inkster and Jack B. Morrell (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1983), 38...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 92–98.
Published: 01 April 2015
... anatomists, natural histo-
rians, and philosophers? Overall, this book will make a difference to schol-
ars of the history of race science, slavery, and the politics of the Enlighten-
ment’s philosophes. Read with Cristina Malcolmson’s Studies of Skin Color in
the Early Royal Society: Boyle, Cavendish...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of Australia, the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, the School of Humanities, Languages, and Social Science at Griffith University, the University of Queensland Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities...
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