Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France

Informationen zum Autor Michael R. Lynn is Associate Professor of History at Agnes Scott College, USA Klappentext This book analyses the forms of popular science, the social and economic status of those who practiced it and the audience, and the settings for scientific dissemination and appropriation. Zusammenfassung This book analyses the forms of popular science! the social and economic status of those who practiced it and the audience! and the settings for scientific dissemination and appropriation. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Available in paperback for the first time1. Introduction2. The practice of popularization3. The audience, economics and geography of popular science4. Institutions of popular science5. Divining rods and public opinion6. Balloons and mass science7. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Michael Lynn, Michael R Lynn, Michael R. Lynn
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9780719073748
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7374-8
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Studies in Early Modern European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)