دانلود کتاب Science and the Enlightenment

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
I The Character of the Enlightenment
Reason and Nature
Science and Literature
The Categories of Science
The Mechanical Philosophy
Science and Philosophy
II Mathematics and the Exact Sciences
The Meaning of Analysis
Motion Along a Curve
Mechanical Principles
Mechanics and Enlightenment Philosophy
Three Tests of Universal Gravitation
Positional Astronomy
Physical Astronomy
III Experimental Physics
The Subtle Fluids
Electricity
The Early History of Electricity
Benjamin Franklin\'s One-Fluid Theory
The Leyden Jar
The Discovery of Current Electricity
Heat and Temperature
Latent Heat
IV Chemistry
The Vaporous State of Matter
Gas Chemistry
The Problem of Combustion
The Phlogiston Theory
Lavoisier\'s Experiments on Combustion
Oxygen and the Vaporous State of Matter
The Rationalization of Chemistry
Chemical Atomism
V Natural History and Physiology
The Mechanical Philosophy and the Study of Life
Experimental Physiology
Generation
The Revival of Preformation
Natural History
VI The Moral Sciences
The Science of Man
Montesquieu\'s Spirit of the Laws
The Encyclopédie
Scientific Academies
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Critic of Society
The Physiocrats
Probability Theory and the Science of Man
Legal Reform
Social Mathematics
The End of the Enlightenment
Bibliographic Essay
Sources ofQuotations
Index