Aesthetic Science : Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 299756079
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.7208/chicago/9780226681054.001.0001
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- ISBN
- 9780226680866
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 100,000 word monograph constitutes a major intervention in the history of the empirical science. The product of 8 years of research, it is published with the University of Chicago Press, the leading press in the world for the history of science. Aesthetic Science demonstrates that taste and aesthetics had a far more important role in the emergence of scientific objectivity than has so far been understood. It makes its case through new interdisciplinary interpretations of works by crucial scientists of 17th-century England, including Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, John Ray, and Thomas Willis.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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