‘A World of New Ideas': 1650-1820
Volume 1: The Isles
Author(s) Paul Frame
Language: English
Series: Scientists of Wales
- February 2025 · 440 pages ·216x138mm
- · Paperback - 9781837720095
- · eBook - pdf - 9781837720101
- · eBook - epub - 9781837720118
About The Book
In the long eighteenth century, between 1650 and 1820, Wales and the rest of Europe moved from a world of alchemy to one of steam engines and electricity. The scientists of Wales contributed to that changing world of new ideas, but their contribution often overlooked in many histories of the period. This book is a corrective that details the work of scientists from Wales in the four home nations of the isles, covering the intellectual changes of the period and their impact on religion; how scientists were educated in Wales; and, in a lengthy final section, some of the practical science undertaken and the social benefits that resulted.
Contents
Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
PrologueWales in the History of Science
Part IFoundations
1A Welsh Renaissance: Science to 1650
2The Scholastic and the Alchemist: Thomas Vaughan
3Making New Worlds
4New Worlds and the Challenge to Religion
5Wales and the Newtonian World
Part IIGaining a Knowledge of Science
6Learning about Science
7The Languages of Science
8Spreading the Word
Part IIIPractical Science
9The Science of the Earth
10The Science of Nature
11Looking Up
12The Science of Us: Health and Social Well-being
13The Science of Us: Nature and Economics
14Science and Technology: Artisan Science
15Science and Technology: Innovators and Inventors
16Encyclopaedic Knowledge
Select Bibliography
Scientists of Wales Name Index
General Index