A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 18th Century

A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 18th Century is a book by Abraham Wolf first published in 1939 as a sequel to his 1935 work, A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 16th and 17th Centuries.

Summary

Written by Abraham Wolf as a sequel to A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 16th and 17th Centuries (1935),[1][2] the book was first published in 1939. It comprises 32 chapters,[3] most of which pertain to the sciences, including astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, geography, mathematics, mechanics, medicine, meteorology, physics, and zoology.[4] Conversely, only two chapters are about philosophy.[5]

Reception

Science reviewer Frederick E. Brasch concluded that the book was a "decidedly useful compendium of scientific, technical and philosophical knowledge of the eighteenth century" but criticised its index and table of contents.[6] Writing in The American Historical Review, Frederick Barry described Wolf's work as "readable" and "interesting".[7] The American Journal of Psychology reviewer E. G. Boring called the book a "masterpiece of erudition".[8] Tenney L. Davis, in the Journal of Chemical Education, called the book "truly encyclopedic in scope", but specifically criticised it for not having a "satisfying" account of chemistry in the eighteenth century.[9]

References

Citations
  1. Wood 1940, p. 578.
  2. Davis 1948, p. 425.
  3. Brasch 1939, p. 536.
  4. Boring 1939, p. 654.
  5. O'Grady 1941, p. 190.
  6. Brasch 1939, p. 537.
  7. Barry 1940, p. 628.
  8. Boring 1939, p. 655.
  9. Davis 1940, p. 50.

Sources
  • Barry, Frederick (1940). "A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century". The American Historical Review. 45 (3): 628–630. JSTOR 1840726.
  • Boring, E. G. (1939). "A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century". The American Journal of Psychology. 52 (4): 653–655. doi:10.2307/1416490. JSTOR 1416490.
  • Brasch, Frederick E. (1939). "A History of Science, Technology and Philosophy in the 18th Century". Science. 89 (2319): 536–537. doi:10.1126/science.89.2319.536.b.
  • Davis, H. M. (1948). "Liberal Education and the Physical Sciences". The Scientific Monthly. 66 (5): 421–426. Bibcode:1948SciMo..66..421D. JSTOR 19496.
  • Davis, Tenney L. (1940). "A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century". Journal of Chemical Education. 17 (1): 50. doi:10.1021/ed017p50.1.
  • O'Grady, Daniel C. (1941). "A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century". The New Scholasticism. 15 (2): 190–191. doi:10.5840/newscholas194115225.
  • Wood, Ledger (1940). "A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century". The Philosophical Review. 49 (5): 578–580. doi:10.2307/2181142. JSTOR 2181142.
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