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Auteur(s) : Richards, Joan L. (1948-....)
Titre(s) : Generations of reason [Texte imprimé] : a family's search for meaning in post-Newtonian England / Joan L. Richards
Publication : New Haven : Yale university press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-441 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"This book recounts the story of three Cambridge-educated Englishmen and the women
with whom they chose to share their commitment to reason in all parts of their lives.
The reason this family embraced was an essentially human power with the potential
to generate true insight into all aspects of the world. In exploring the ways reason
permeated three generations of English experience, this book casts new light on key
developments in English cultural and political history, from the religious conformism
of the eighteenth century through the Napoleonic era into the Industrial Revolution
and prosperity of the Victorian age. At the same time, it restores the rich world
of the essentially meditative, rational sciences of theology, astronomy, mathematics,
and logic to their proper place in the English intellectual landscape. Following the
development of their views over the course of an eventful one hundred years of English
history illuminates the fine structure of ways reason still operates in our world."--Publisher
description
Sujet(s) : Vie intellectuelle -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e siècle
Vie intellectuelle -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Sciences -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e siècle
Sciences -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
509.410 9 (23e éd.) = Sciences naturelles et mathématiques - Îles britanniques - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0300255497. - ISBN 9780300255492 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47132845w
Notice n° :
FRBNF47132845
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : PART 1: DIVINING REASON : Faith in Reason ; Breaking Away ; Education of an Anglican
; The Road to Unitarianism ; Exercising Reason ; Trials in Cambridge ; PART 2:
DEFINING REASON : Trials in London ; Reasoning in Uneasy Times ; Heiress ; Son
of India ; Reading Man ; Laying the Groundwork ; Unitarian Women ; Gentleman of
Reason ; Reasoning among the Stars ; Expanding Consciousness ; PART 2: DIVIDING
REASON : Home on Gower Street ; Rearing Young Seedlings ; Expanding Reason ; Beyond
Matter ; Beyond Reason.
