This volume reproduces primary texts which embody the polymathic nature of the literature of science, and provides editorial overviews and extensive references,

This volume reproduces primary texts which embody the polymathic nature of the literature of science, and provides editorial overviews and extensive references,

Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic link

This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology a