Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises and Sensibilities. Lewis Pyenson

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       Gunpowder

       The vocabulary of military science

       French military builders

       Naval stars

       The star chart

       Military mappers

       Military weathermen

       Applications and prestige

       PART III: SENSIBILITIES

       12 Participating: Beyond Scientific Societies

       The rise of literary and philosophical societies

       Associations for the advancement of science

       The common scientist

       Scientific clubs for everyone

       The overseas extension of European models

       Women in science

       The example of Madame du Châtelet

       Women elsewhere

       13 Appropriating: Science in Nations Beyond Europe

       Colonial scientific societies

       Early colonial universities

       Independent universities

       The research university in the United States

       Scientific migration

       Australasia

       Scientist missionaries in South America

       Science at American universities

       Science at Japanese universities

       British India and Dutch Indonesia

       14 Believing: Science and Religion

       Science in the Counter-Reformation

       The Merton thesis

       The Webster thesis: millenarianism and science

       The Enlightenment

       Deism

       Natural theology

       The argument against Darwinian evolution

       Twentieth-century developments

       15 Knowing: Progressing and Proclaiming

       Magic and science

       Baconianism

       Encyclopaedism

       Materialism

       Positivism

       The polemical positivism of Auguste Comte

       The eclipse of positivism

       16 Knowing: Relativizing

       The century of relativity

       Mach and Einstein

       The reception of Einstein’s thought

       Eclecticism and hope

       FURTHER READING

       INDEX

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       NOTES

       THE FONTANA HISTORY OF SCIENCE SERIES

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

       PREFACE

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