Title: Science in the Enlightenment : an encyclopedia /
Authors: Burns, William E.
Publisher: ABC-CLIO,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Science history; Science History Encyclopedias.; Enlightenment
Abstract: "The first introductory reference work focusing exclusively on the scientific output of the era, Science in the Enlightenment spans the full spectrum of scientific disciplines, some of which built on the achievements of the previous era (astronomy, mathematics), some of which underwent revolutionary change (chemistry; zoology and botany; geology; and medicine). It is the ideal introduction to both the vast array of innovation and controversy the universe of eighteenth-century science offered its eager public and the legacy that science left for the future."--
Contents: Academies and scientific societies -- Agriculture -- Alembert, Jean Le Rond d' (1717-1783) -- American Philosophical Society -- Ampère, André-Marie (1775-1836) -- Anatomy -- Arcueil, Society of -- Astronomy -- Atomism -- Avogadro, Amedeo (1776-1856) -- Ballooning -- Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820) -- Bartram Family -- Bassi, Laure Maria Catarina (1711-1778) -- Beddoes, Thomas (1760-1808) -- Berlin Academy -- Bernoulli Family -- Berthollet, Claude-Louis (1748-1822) -- Berzelius, Jöns Jakob (1779-1848) -- Bichat, Marie-François-Xavier (1771-1802) -- Black, Joseph (1728-1799) -- Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich (1752-1840) -- Boerhaave, Hermann (1668-1738) -- Bologna Academy of Sciences -- Bonnet, Charles (1720-1793) -- Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe (1711-1787) -- Botanical gardens -- Botany -- Böttger, Johann Friedrich (1682-1719) -- Bradley, James (1693-1762) -- Brown, Robert (1773-1858) -- Brunonianism -- Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1707-1788) -- Calorimeters -- Cartesianism -- Cassini Family -- Cavendish, Henry (1731-1810) -- Châtelet, Gabrielle-Émilie du (1706-1749) -- Chemical nomenclature -- Chemistry -- Cheyne, George (1671-1743) -- Colonial science -- Comets -- Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de (1715-1780) -- Condorcet, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de (1743-1794) -- Cook, James (1728-1779) -- Coudray, Angelique Marguerite Le Boursier du (1714?-1794) -- Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de (1736-1806) -- Crell, Lorenz Florens Friedrich Von (1744-1816) -- Cuvier, Georges (1769-1832) --