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Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York
In "Everyday Nature", Sara S. Gronim shows how scientific advances were received in the early modern world, from the time Europeans settled in America until just before the American Revolution. A fascinating portrait of colonial life, this book traces a series of innovations that were disseminated throughout the Atlantic world during the Enlightenment, and shows ...more
Paperback, 261 pages
Published
November 15th 2009
by Rutgers University Press
(first published April 1st 2007)
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Recommends it for:
environmental historians, new york history buffs, science studies
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environment
Sara S. Gronim examines how colonial new yorkers understood the natural world. This book examines how everyday people saw nature as enlightenment transformed how scientists, intellectuals, and elites saw the world around them. It would be a wonderful book for a class on science and society as it engages the question of how people's ideas about the world change, and how people interpret (and interpolate) scientific knowledge. The people studied in this book took parts of information most useful...more
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