In over 60 alphabetical entries, Shectman examines at the tremendous scientific discoveries, inventions, and inquiries of the period.
Introduction Entries Appendix: Entries by Scientific Field Glossary of Technical Terms Bibliography Names and Subject Index
JONATHAN SHECTMAN is former editor of a series of science education books written by the National Science Resources Center, an arm of the Smithsonian Institution.
?[t]his well-organized work offers sixty-two essays on an
impressively detailed range of significant practical applications
of science, new discoveries, and investigations carried out between
1687and 1799. Readers will find the introduction very valuable for
its thoughtful consideration of the place of science in the
eighteenth century and that century's role as the bridge between
the mindsets of figures as disparate as Isaac Newton and James
Watt....The "Timeline of Important Events" offers more than merely
a simple chronology, with numerous detailed annotations permitting
an overview of the progress of eighteenth-century science by
decade. This volume and the accompanying members of the series fit
well within the scope of any general science collection in
libraries of all types from high school through college and
university.?-E-STREAMS
?[A]imed at middle school and high school students, undergraduates
who are not science majors, and the general public--an audience
that would probably find the ignored social and cultural aspects
valuable and interesting.?-Library Journal
?[R]ecommended....advanced high-school students, college-level
nonscience majors, and adult readers.?-Booklist/Reference Books in
Brief
?Human curiosity in the 18th century expanded knowledge in profound
ways. Digestion was discovered to be a chemical process. Light was
first produced by electricity. Combinations of the three primary
colors were determined sufficient to produce all other colors. The
metric system was introduced. The idea that humans function as
complex machines first appeared. Carbon dioxide was discovered. Air
was found to be a collection of gases. Insects were discovered as
pollinators. Black holes were first proposed. Water was determined
to be compound in nature. Heat was found to be a form of energy.
Shectman explores these and many more important 18th-century
discoveries and innovations in this well-organized and pleasantly
readable encyclopedic resource....Highly recommended. General
readers; lower-division undergraduates.?-Choice
"Ýt¨his well-organized work offers sixty-two essays on an
impressively detailed range of significant practical applications
of science, new discoveries, and investigations carried out between
1687and 1799. Readers will find the introduction very valuable for
its thoughtful consideration of the place of science in the
eighteenth century and that century's role as the bridge between
the mindsets of figures as disparate as Isaac Newton and James
Watt....The "Timeline of Important Events" offers more than merely
a simple chronology, with numerous detailed annotations permitting
an overview of the progress of eighteenth-century science by
decade. This volume and the accompanying members of the series fit
well within the scope of any general science collection in
libraries of all types from high school through college and
university."-E-STREAMS
"ÝA¨imed at middle school and high school students, undergraduates
who are not science majors, and the general public--an audience
that would probably find the ignored social and cultural aspects
valuable and interesting."-Library Journal
"ÝR¨ecommended....advanced high-school students, college-level
nonscience majors, and adult readers."-Booklist/Reference Books in
Brief
"[A]imed at middle school and high school students, undergraduates
who are not science majors, and the general public--an audience
that would probably find the ignored social and cultural aspects
valuable and interesting."-Library Journal
"[R]ecommended....advanced high-school students, college-level
nonscience majors, and adult readers."-Booklist/Reference Books in
Brief
"Human curiosity in the 18th century expanded knowledge in profound
ways. Digestion was discovered to be a chemical process. Light was
first produced by electricity. Combinations of the three primary
colors were determined sufficient to produce all other colors. The
metric system was introduced. The idea that humans function as
complex machines first appeared. Carbon dioxide was discovered. Air
was found to be a collection of gases. Insects were discovered as
pollinators. Black holes were first proposed. Water was determined
to be compound in nature. Heat was found to be a form of energy.
Shectman explores these and many more important 18th-century
discoveries and innovations in this well-organized and pleasantly
readable encyclopedic resource....Highly recommended. General
readers; lower-division undergraduates."-Choice
"[t]his well-organized work offers sixty-two essays on an
impressively detailed range of significant practical applications
of science, new discoveries, and investigations carried out between
1687and 1799. Readers will find the introduction very valuable for
its thoughtful consideration of the place of science in the
eighteenth century and that century's role as the bridge between
the mindsets of figures as disparate as Isaac Newton and James
Watt....The "Timeline of Important Events" offers more than merely
a simple chronology, with numerous detailed annotations permitting
an overview of the progress of eighteenth-century science by
decade. This volume and the accompanying members of the series fit
well within the scope of any general science collection in
libraries of all types from high school through college and
university."-E-STREAMS
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