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The History of the Royal Society
Author: Thomas Sprat
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Published: 2014-03-30
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9781498089647
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Is A New Release Of The Original 1667 Edition.
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The Royal Society
Author: Adrian Tinniswood
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2019-06-04
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 154167376X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An engaging new history of the Royal Society of London, the club that created modern scientific thought Founded in 1660 to advance knowledge through experimentally verified facts, The Royal Society of London is now one of the preeminent scientific institutions of the world. It published the world's first science journal, and has counted scientific luminaries from Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking among its members. However, the road to truth was often bumpy. In its early years-while bickering, hounding its members for dues, and failing to create its own museum-members also performed sheep to human blood transfusions, and experimented with unicorn horns. In his characteristically accessible and lively style, Adrian Tinniswood charts the Society's evolution from poisoning puppies to the discovery of DNA, and reminds us of the increasing relevance of its motto for the modern world: Nullius in Verba-Take no one's word for it.
The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge
I Am a Book. I Am a Portal to the Universe
Author: Stefanie Posavec
Publisher: Particular Books
Published: 2020-09-03
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780241408759
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hello. I am a book. But I'm also a portal to the universe. I have 112 pages, measuring twenty centimetres high and twenty centimetres wide. I weigh 450 grams. And I have the power to show you the wonders of the world.
Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life
Author: William Stukeley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9781523211159
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The History of the Royal Society of London for Improving of Natural Knowledge, from Its First Rise
A Social History of Truth
Author: Steven Shapin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011-11-18
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 022614884X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth-century England. Steven Shapin paints a vivid picture of the relations between gentlemanly culture and scientific practice. He argues that problems of credibility in science were practically solved through the codes and conventions of genteel conduct: trust, civility, honor, and integrity. These codes formed, and arguably still form, an important basis for securing reliable knowledge about the natural world. Shapin uses detailed historical narrative to argue about the establishment of factual knowledge both in science and in everyday practice. Accounts of the mores and manners of gentlemen-philosophers are used to illustrate Shapin's broad claim that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge. Knowledge-making is always a collective enterprise: people have to know whom to trust in order to know something about the natural world.
The History of the Royal Society of London for Improving of Natural Knowledge from Its First Rise, in which the Most Considerable of Those Papers Communicated to the Society, which Have Hitherto Not Been Published, are Inserted as a Supplement to the Philosophical Transactions
