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The Spectacle of the Growth of Knowledge and Swift's Satires on Science
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Beat Affentranger
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Universal-Publishers

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This is a revisionist study of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century satires on science with an emphasis on the writings of Jonathan Swift and, to a lesser degree
Swift and Science
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: G. Lynall
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-22 - Publisher: Springer

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It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the t
The Singular and the Making of Knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: Palmira Fontes da Costa
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-14 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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The central subject of this book is the status of singular experiences in the making of natural knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the eighteenth centu
Information and Experimental Knowledge
Language: en
Pages: 373
Authors: James Mattingly
Categories: SCIENCE
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Introduction -- Aspects of experimentation -- Information and experimentation -- Ways of experimenting.
Going Amiss in Experimental Research
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Giora Hon
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-04 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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Like any goal-oriented procedure, experiment is subject to many kinds of failures. These failures have a variety of features, depending on the particulars of th