Science in the Enlightenment : an encyclopedia / William E. Burns.

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Main Author: Burns, William E., 1959-
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2003], ©2003.
Series:ABC-CLIO's history of science series.
Subjects:
Science > History > Encyclopedias.
Science > history.
Encyclopedias.
Genre:
Encyclopedias.
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Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xxvii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Academies and scientific societies
  • Agriculture
  • Alembert, Jean Le Rond d' (1717-1783)
  • American Philosophical Society
  • Ampère, André-Marie (1775-1836)
  • Anatomy
  • Arcueil, Society of
  • Astronomy
  • Atomism
  • Avogadro, Amedeo (1776-1856)
  • Ballooning
  • Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820)
  • Bartram Family
  • Bassi, Laure Maria Catarina (1711-1778)
  • Beddoes, Thomas (1760-1808)
  • Berlin Academy
  • Bernoulli Family
  • Berthollet, Claude-Louis (1748-1822)
  • Berzelius, Jöns Jakob (1779-1848)
  • Bichat, Marie-François-Xavier (1771-1802)
  • Black, Joseph (1728-1799)
  • Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich (1752-1840)
  • Boerhaave, Hermann (1668-1738)
  • Bologna Academy of Sciences
  • Bonnet, Charles (1720-1793)
  • Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe (1711-1787)
  • Botanical gardens
  • Botany
  • Böttger, Johann Friedrich (1682-1719)
  • Bradley, James (1693-1762)
  • Brown, Robert (1773-1858)
  • Brunonianism
  • Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1707-1788)
  • Calorimeters
  • Cartesianism
  • Cassini Family
  • Cavendish, Henry (1731-1810)
  • Châtelet, Gabrielle-Émilie du (1706-1749)
  • Chemical nomenclature
  • Chemistry
  • Cheyne, George (1671-1743)
  • Colonial science
  • Comets
  • Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de (1715-1780)
  • Condorcet, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de (1743-1794)
  • Cook, James (1728-1779)
  • Coudray, Angelique Marguerite Le Boursier du (1714?-1794)
  • Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de (1736-1806)
  • Crell, Lorenz Florens Friedrich Von (1744-1816)
  • Cuvier, Georges (1769-1832)
  • Dalton, John (1766-1844)
  • Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
  • Davy, Sir Humphry (1778-1829)
  • Derby Philosophical Society
  • Desaguliers, John Theophilus (1683-1744)
  • Diderot, Denis (1713-1784)
  • Earthquakes
  • Education
  • Egyptian expedition
  • Electricity
  • Embryology
  • Encyclopedias
  • The Enlightenment
  • Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783)
  • Exploration, discovery, and colonization
  • Fossils
  • Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
  • Freemasonry
  • French Revolution
  • Galvani, Luigi (1737-1798)
  • Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855)
  • Gay-Lussac, Joseph-Louis (1778-1850)
  • Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Étienne (1772-1844)
  • Geology
  • Germain, Sophie (1776-1831
  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
  • Hales, Stephen (1677-1761)
  • Haller, Albrecht von (1708-1777)
  • Hauksbee, Francis (c. 1666-1713)
  • Heat
  • Herschel Family
  • Hospitals
  • Humboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859)
  • Hunter Family
  • Hutchinsonianism
  • Hutton, James (1726-1797)
  • Hygrometers
  • Illustration
  • Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg
  • Industrialization
  • Instrument making
  • Japan, western science in
  • Jewish culture
  • Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
  • Kew Gardens
  • Klaproth, Martin Heinrich (1743-1817)