ISBN:
9781526153036
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 262 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
DDC:
306.4509033
Keywords:
18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.)
;
c 1700 to c 1800
;
Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften
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HIS015050
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HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
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HISTORY / Social History
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History of science
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Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
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SCIENCE / History
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Social & cultural history
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Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
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Hauswirtschaft
;
Kultur
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Haushaltsökonomie
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Geschichte 1700-1800
;
Großbritannien
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Alltagskultur
;
Hauswirtschaft
;
Haushaltsökonomie
;
Geschichte 1700-1800
Abstract:
This book reveals the eighteenth-century home as a site of emergence for science. By rejecting the limiting associations of domestic life , this book re-imagines a culture of enquiry populated by apprentices and housewives as much as Fellows of the Royal Society
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: cultures of enquiry in the eighteenth-century British worldPart I1 Household materials and networked space 2 Tacit knowledge and keeping a recordPart II3 Collecting4 Observing5 ExperimentingPart III6 Personal experience and authority7 Re-examining the culture of enquiryBibliographyIndex
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