Acolytes of nature
Subtitle: defining natural science in Germany, 1770-1850
By: Denise Phillips
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780226667379
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Science; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Natural knowledge and the learned public in the enlightenment; title: The expanding ranks of nature's friends; title: Defending learned dignity; title: Nature in a local microcosm; title: Wooing the polite public; title: The nature of the fatherland; title: The wellspring of modernity; title: The particularity of natural science.