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Histories of science : natural philosophy in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Alff, David (Editor), Spratt, Danielle, 1980- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Science > History > 18th century.
Natural history > 18th century > Historiography.
Literature and science > History > 18th century.
Philosophy and science > History > 18th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Rhetoric
  • Science for the Birds: Figurative Language and The History of the Royal Society / Jess Keiser
  • Centlivre's Frankenstein: Science, Authorship, and Monstrous (Re)Productions in A Bold Stroke for a Wife / Melissa Bailes
  • Picturing Air: The Rhetoric of Nondescription in Robert Boyle's New Experiments Physico-mechanical and Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year / Vivian Zuluaga Papp
  • Romancing the Placebo / Jayne Lewis
  • Part II. Reception
  • The "Eye of Mr. Anson Himself": Art and Evanescence in A Voyage Round the World (1748) / Anne M. Thell
  • Literary Technologies of the Sextant in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Aaron R. Hanlon
  • Newtonian Legacies in William Hogarth's A Scene from The Indian Emperour, or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards / Laura Miller
  • "Fully Prov'd by the Plates": Desaguliers' Unauthorized System / Al Coppola
  • Part III. Embodiment
  • Plants, Principles, Strata: John Woodward's Improbable Corpuscles / Helen Thompson
  • "Mice in a Barn" or "Every Little Miss"? Figurative Imagination and Demographic Narratives of the Long Eighteenth Century / Lisa Forman Cody
  • Jane Barker and Virgin Anatomy / Frank Boyle
  • Margaret Cavendish, a Sensitive Witness / Kristin M. Girten
  • Maria Edgeworth's Avian Entwinements: Experimental Science and the Cultivation of the Female Mind in Practical Education and Belinda / Adela Ramos
  • Part IV. Environment
  • The Hoe and the Plow: Plantation Labor Under the Somatic Energy Regime / Ramesh Mallipeddi
  • Infrastructural Inversion at Clarens: St. Preux in the Garden / Eric Gidal
  • Taxonomic Subversion and Vegetal Expansion in Charlotte Smith's "Beachy Head" / Anna K. Sagal
  • Spicy Forests and Amboyna Burl: Dryden and the Ecology of Disaster / Rajani Sudan
  • Geomythography: A Genealogy / Tobias Menely.