Author: Mathias, Peter (ed.)
Title: Science & society 1600 - 1900.
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with a neat name/date else no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. viii + 166 pages, 6 illustrations on plates. Contains 6 essays:- P.M. Rattansi 'The social interpretation of science in the seventeenth century'; A. Rupert Hall 'Science, technology and utopia in the seventeenth century'; Peter Mathias 'Who unbound Prometheus? Science and technical change, 1600-1800'; D.S.L. Cardwell 'Science and the steam engine, 1790-1825'; E.M. Sigsworth 'Gateways on death, medicine, hospitals and mortality, 1700-1850', and Roy M. MacLeod 'Resources on science in Victorian England: the endowment of science movement, 1868-1900'. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

Keywords: Steam Engines Industrial Revolution History of medicine Social Science


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