Age of Enlightenment

Crosland, Maurice P. "The Chemical Revolution of the eighteenth century and the eclipse of alchemy in the Age of Enlightenment. " In Alchemy revisited, ed. 

In the Age of Enlightenment and absolutism, psychiatry developed in different directions in the different European countries depending on local political and social circumstances (see Schrenk, 1973 Domer, 1975 Foucault, 1978). The essential features of this development, which occurred in all countries sooner or later, are ... 

The history of human mathematical computations goes back for several millenia. The need for numerical computations has increased since the age of enlightenment and the industrial revolution three centuries ago. For the last 50 years, the human race has become more and more dependent on numerical computations and digital computers. Computational techniques have developed from early hand computations, through table look up, mechanical adding and multiplying devices, the slide rule etc, to programmable electronic computers, mainframes, PCs, laptops, and notebooks. 

Uhe history of the University of Bologna, including the presence of women scientists and legal scholars on its faculty during the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment, can be traced on the university s Web site, . 

Thus ended the 1700s, the Age of Enlighten ment. Actually, there were times for enlightenment also for mineralogy, in general, and the micas in particular. The future... 

Since the late 1940 s, as mentioned by Gschneidner (1984), fourteen major scientific discoveries or advancements had occurred in the Age of Enlightenment , which covered the two decades from 1950 through 1969, and an additional ten discoveries in the Golden Age (1970 to date). Many of these 24 events plus several from the Dark Ages (1787-1949) will be discussed in the various sections of this chapter under the appropriate topic (see table 1), with special emphasis being placed on how these impacted the whole of science and not just the rare earths themselves. 

Consider the attitudes towards the natural world expressed by the various engineering societies as listed in Table 2.1. Clearly, those attitudes originated in the scientific and philosophical theories of the Age of Enlightenment. Engineers should care about nature if at all only if it serves the interests of humankind. Nature has... 

Evans C (2007) Crucible steel as an enlightened material. Paper presented at Steel in Britain in the Age of Enlightenment, University of Glamorgan, 7/8 December, p 7... 

Ref. [i] Pancaldi G (2005) Volta Science and culture in the age of enlightenment. Princeton University Press, Philadelphia... 

G. Pancaldi, Volta Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2005. 

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