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Reforming philosophy : a Victorian debate on science and society.
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ISBN: 0226767337 Year: 2006 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago press

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A philosophically and historically sensitive account of the engagement of the major protagonists of Victorian British philosophy, 'Reforming Philosophy' considers the controversies between William Whewell and John Stuart Mill on the topics of science, morality, politics, and economics. By situating their debate within the larger context of Victorian society and its concerns, Laura Snyder shows how two very different men& Whewell, an educator, Anglican priest, and critic of science; and Mill, a philosopher, political economist, and parliamentarian& reacted to the challenges of their times, each seeking to reform science as a means of reforming society as a whole. The first book-length examination of the dispute between Mill and Whewell in its entirety, 'Reforming Philosophy' provides a rich and nuanced understanding of the intellectual spirit of Victorian Britain and will be welcomed by philosophers and historians of science, scholars of Victorian studies, and students of the history of philosophy and political economy.


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Eye of the beholder : Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the reinvention of seeing
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ISBN: 1784970247 9781784970246 9781784970239 9781784970253 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York Head of Zeus

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By the early 17th century the Scientific Revolution was well under way. Philosophers and scientists were throwing off the yoke of ancient authority to peer at nature and the cosmos through microscopes and telescopes. In October 1632, in the small town of Delft in the Dutch Republic, two geniuses were born who would bring about a seismic shift in the idea of what it meant to see the world. One was Johannes Vermeer, whose experiments with lenses and a camera obscura taught him how we see under different conditions of light and helped him create the most luminous works of art ever beheld. The other was Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, whose work with microscopes revealed a previously unimagined realm of minuscule creatures. By intertwining the biographies of these two men, Laura Snyder tells the story of a historical moment in both art and science that revolutionized how we see the world today.

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