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The Sciences in Enlightened Europe
Radically reorienting our understanding of the Enlightenment, this book explores the complex relations between "enlightened" values and the making of scientific knowledge. Here monsters and automata, barometers and botanical gardens, polite academies and boisterous clubs are all given their due place in the landscape of enlightened Europe.
The contributors examine the production of new disciplines through work with instruments and techniques; consider how institutions of public taste and conversation helped provide a common frame for the study of human and nonhuman natures; and explore the regional operations of scientific culture at the geographical fringes of Europe.
Implicated in the rise of both fascism and liberal secularism, the moral and political values that shaped the Enlightenment remain controversial today. Through careful scrutiny of how these values influenced and were influenced by the concrete practices of its sciences, this book gives us an entirely new sense of the Enlightenment.
The contributors examine the production of new disciplines through work with instruments and techniques; consider how institutions of public taste and conversation helped provide a common frame for the study of human and nonhuman natures; and explore the regional operations of scientific culture at the geographical fringes of Europe.
Implicated in the rise of both fascism and liberal secularism, the moral and political values that shaped the Enlightenment remain controversial today. Through careful scrutiny of how these values influenced and were influenced by the concrete practices of its sciences, this book gives us an entirely new sense of the Enlightenment.
580 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1999
About the author
William Clark
481 books9 followersWilliam Donaldson Clark was a prominent British journalist and public servant who blended a career in writing with high-level politics.
He was born on 28 July 1916, the son of John McClare Clark and Marion Jackson. He was educated at the independent Oundle School and graduated from Oriel College, Oxford with a First Class degree in modern history. He later attended the University of Chicago in 1938 as a Commonwealth Fellow. During World War II he worked doing public relations for Britain in the United States.
He became the London editor of Encyclopædia Britannica in 1946, a post he left for journalism in 1949 and later he was a foreign affairs correspondent for The Observer (1950–1955), and wrote political novels, including 'Number 10' (1966) and 'Cataclysm: The North-South Conflict of 1987' (1984).
He was also the first director of the Overseas Development Institute (1960–1968) and later served as Vice President for External Affairs at the World Bank (1974–1980).
In addition, he was the press secretary to Prime Minister Anthony Eden from 1955 to 1956, eventually resigning in protest over the Suez Canal Crisis.
He died of liver cancer at his home in Cuxham, Oxfordshire and was survived by his two brothers, Kenneth and Nicholas.
Librarian's note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. This is William^Clark.
He was born on 28 July 1916, the son of John McClare Clark and Marion Jackson. He was educated at the independent Oundle School and graduated from Oriel College, Oxford with a First Class degree in modern history. He later attended the University of Chicago in 1938 as a Commonwealth Fellow. During World War II he worked doing public relations for Britain in the United States.
He became the London editor of Encyclopædia Britannica in 1946, a post he left for journalism in 1949 and later he was a foreign affairs correspondent for The Observer (1950–1955), and wrote political novels, including 'Number 10' (1966) and 'Cataclysm: The North-South Conflict of 1987' (1984).
He was also the first director of the Overseas Development Institute (1960–1968) and later served as Vice President for External Affairs at the World Bank (1974–1980).
In addition, he was the press secretary to Prime Minister Anthony Eden from 1955 to 1956, eventually resigning in protest over the Suez Canal Crisis.
He died of liver cancer at his home in Cuxham, Oxfordshire and was survived by his two brothers, Kenneth and Nicholas.
Librarian's note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. This is William^Clark.
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