Title The Uses of science in the age of Newton / edited by John G. Burke

Published Berkeley : University Of California Press, [1983] Berkeley : University of California Press, [1983] ©1983

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Description 204 pages ; 25 cm Series Publications from the Clark Library professorship, UCLA ; 8 Publications from the Clark Library professorship, UCLA ; 8 Contents The poets and science in seventeenth-century England / Earl Miner -- Oldenburg, the Philosophical transactions, and technology / Marie Boas Hall -- The birth of the modern scientific instrument, 1550-1700 / Albert Van Helden -- Robert Hooke, mechanical technology, and scientific investigation / Richard S. Westfall -- Gunnery, science, and the Royal Society / A. Rupert Hall -- Nautical astronomy and the problem of longitude / David W. Waters -- Tory-High church opposition to science and scientism in the eighteenth century: the works of John Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Johnson / Richard Olson Analysis Science, 1500-1750 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Contemporaries. Science -- Philosophy -- History. Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Science -- Great Britain -- History. Author Burke, John G. LC no. 83001223 ISBN 0520049705

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