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A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 18th Century

A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 18th Century is a book by Abraham Wolf first published in 1939 as a sequel to his 1935 work, A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 16th and 17th Centuries.

Summary edit

Written by Abraham Wolf as a sequel to A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 16th and 17th Centuries (1935),[1][2] the book was first published in 1939. It comprises 32 chapters,[3] most of which pertain to the sciences, including astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, geography, mathematics, mechanics, medicine, meteorology, physics, and zoology.[4] Conversely, only two chapters are about philosophy.[5]

Reception edit

Science reviewer Frederick E. Brasch concluded that the book was a "decidedly useful compendium of scientific, technical and philosophical knowledge of the eighteenth century" but criticised its index and table of contents.[6] Writing in The American Historical Review, Frederick Barry described Wolf's work as "readable" and "interesting".[7] The American Journal of Psychology reviewer E. G. Boring called the book a "masterpiece of erudition".[8] Tenney L. Davis, in the Journal of Chemical Education, called the book "truly encyclopedic in scope", but specifically criticised it for not having a "satisfying" account of chemistry in the eighteenth century.[9]

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Citations edit

  1. ^ Wood 1940, p. 578.
  2. ^ Davis 1948, p. 425.
  3. ^ Brasch 1939, p. 536.
  4. ^ Boring 1939, p. 654.
  5. ^ O'Grady 1941, p. 190.
  6. ^ Brasch 1939, p. 537.
  7. ^ Barry 1940, p. 628.
  8. ^ Boring 1939, p. 655.
  9. ^ Davis 1940, p. 50.

Sources edit

  • Barry, Frederick (1940). "A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century". The American Historical Review. 45 (3): 628–630. JSTOR 1840726.
  • Boring, E. G. (1939). "A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century". The American Journal of Psychology. 52 (4): 653–655. doi:10.2307/1416490. JSTOR 1416490.
  • Brasch, Frederick E. (1939). "A History of Science, Technology and Philosophy in the 18th Century". Science. 89 (2319): 536–537. doi:10.1126/science.89.2319.536.b.
  • Davis, H. M. (1948). "Liberal Education and the Physical Sciences". The Scientific Monthly. 66 (5): 421–426. Bibcode:1948SciMo..66..421D. JSTOR 19496.
  • Davis, Tenney L. (1940). "A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century". Journal of Chemical Education. 17 (1): 50. doi:10.1021/ed017p50.1.
  • O'Grady, Daniel C. (1941). "A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century". The New Scholasticism. 15 (2): 190–191. doi:10.5840/newscholas194115225.
  • Wood, Ledger (1940). "A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century". The Philosophical Review. 49 (5): 578–580. doi:10.2307/2181142. JSTOR 2181142.
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