BIBFRAME Work

Title

Histories of science

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Natural philosophy in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Alff, David (editor)
• Spratt, Danielle, 1980- (editor)

Subject

• Science--History--18th century (LCSH)
• Literature and science--History--18th century (LCSH)
• Philosophy and science--History--18th century (LCSH)
• Natural history--18th century--Historiography (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Essays (LCGFT)

Language

• eng

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

• DDC: 509 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: Q126.8 .H578 2025 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"This volume's contributors discuss the representation, reception, and application of natural philosophy in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. The essays cover matters of science and empire, histories of observation and exploration, critical plant and animal studies, histories of demography, histories of disaster and plague studies, the history of medicine, and the history of science and gender"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Part I. Rhetoric -- Science for the Birds: Figurative Language and The History of the Royal Society / Jess Keiser -- Centlivre's Frankenstein: Science, Authorship, and Monstrous (Re)Productions in A Bold Stroke for a Wife / Melissa Bailes -- Picturing Air: The Rhetoric of Nondescription in Robert Boyle's New Experiments Physico-mechanical and Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year / Vivian Zuluaga Papp -- Romancing the Placebo / Jayne Lewis -- Part II. Reception -- The "Eye of Mr. Anson Himself": Art and Evanescence in A Voyage Round the World (1748) / Anne M. Thell -- Literary Technologies of the Sextant in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Aaron R. Hanlon -- Newtonian Legacies in William Hogarth's A Scene from The Indian Emperour, or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards / Laura Miller -- "Fully Prov'd by the Plates": Desaguliers' Unauthorized System / Al Coppola -- Part III. Embodiment -- Plants, Principles, Strata: John Woodward's Improbable Corpuscles / Helen Thompson -- "Mice in a Barn" or "Every Little Miss"? Figurative Imagination and Demographic Narratives of the Long Eighteenth Century / Lisa Forman Cody -- Jane Barker and Virgin Anatomy / Frank Boyle -- Margaret Cavendish, a Sensitive Witness / Kristin M. Girten -- Maria Edgeworth's Avian Entwinements: Experimental Science and the Cultivation of the Female Mind in Practical Education and Belinda / Adela Ramos -- Part IV. Environment -- The Hoe and the Plow: Plantation Labor Under the Somatic Energy Regime / Ramesh Mallipeddi -- Infrastructural Inversion at Clarens: St. Preux in the Garden / Eric Gidal -- Taxonomic Subversion and Vegetal Expansion in Charlotte Smith's "Beachy Head" / Anna K. Sagal -- Spicy Forests and Amboyna Burl: Dryden and the Ecology of Disaster / Rajani Sudan -- Geomythography: A Genealogy / Tobias Menely.

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• Date: 2026-10-01T01:21:15.330352+00:00
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• Derived from: 24032335

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• Description language: eng
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