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The Cambridge History of Science comprises eight volumes, the first four arranged chronologically from antiquity through the eighteenth century, the latter four organized thematically and covering the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Eminent scholars from Europe and North America, who together form the editorial board for the series, edit the respective volumes. Forthcoming: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.
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- Author
- Roy Porter (Editor)
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781107521643
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Technology, Social Science
Other editions & translations
- The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 7: The Modern Social Sciences (The Cambridge History of Science) (2003)
- The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5: The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2003)
- The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 7, The Modern Social Sciences: Modern Social Sciences Vol 7 (2003)
- Theodore Porter Ross The Cambridge History Of Science (2003)
- The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 4. The Eighteenth Century 4 (2017)
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