Society In Restoration England Research Articles

Teaching & Learning Guide for: Politics, Print Culture and the Habermas Thesis Cluster

Teaching & Learning Guide for: Politics, Print Culture and the Habermas Thesis Cluster

Intellectual history: Biographical and archival sources

Abstract My area of speciality is the history of ideas in late-seventeenth-century England, on which I have published various books; my research has focused on the Royal Society in its early years, and on such thinkers as John Aubrey, John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, and Samuel J eake. Though in the past I have attempted a general survey of the ideas of the period in my Science and Society in Restoration England (1981), I have come to feel that such surveys almost inevitably involve undue simplification. Instead, it has increasingly been my conviction that the ideas of a period like this can only be properly understood by intensive study of the ideas of individual thinkers, preferably involving close scrutiny of the archival remains that they have left us. For that reason, I am myself committed to a sustained programme of research on Robert Boyle, whose extensive papers I am trying to understand and exploit, in conjunction with a new edition of his writings for the ‘Pickering Masters’ series, which I am currently preparing in collaboration with Antonio Clericuzio and Edward B. Davis.

Science and Society in Restoration England

Book synopsis: Although much has been written on the intellectual achievements of the age of Newton, Boyle and Hooke, this book provided the first systematic assessment of the social relations of Restoration science when it was published in 1981. On the basis of a detailed analysis of the early history of the Royal Society, Professor Hunter examines the key issues concerning the role of science in late seventeenth-century England. The nature of the scientific community, the links between science and technology and science's political affiliations are all explored, while much light is cast on contemporary priorities in religion and learning through a reconsideration of attacks on science. At once wide-ranging and authoritative, this remains a work that no one concerned with science and its social integration in this formative period can afford to ignore.

Science and Society in Restoration England. Michael HunterUtopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing, 1516-1700. J. C. Davis

<i>Science and Society in Restoration England</i>. Michael Hunter<i>Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing, 1516-1700</i>. J. C. Davis

Science and Society in Restoration England.

Science and Society in Restoration England.

The Newtonian Revolution; with illustrations of the transformation of scientific ideas, by Bernard Cohen, Philosophers at War: The Quarrel between Newton and Leibniz, by A. Rupert Hall, Science and Society in Restoration England, by Michael Hunter. and The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans, by Margaret C. Jacob

<i>The Newtonian Revolution; with illustrations of the transformation of scientific ideas</i>, by Bernard Cohen, <i>Philosophers at War: The Quarrel between Newton and Leibniz</i>, by A. Rupert Hall, <i>Science and Society in Restoration England</i>, by Michael Hunter. and <i>The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans</i>, by Margaret C. Jacob

Science in Different Countries - Michael Hunter, Science and society in restoration England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xii + 233. £18.50; £5.95 (paperback).

Science in Different Countries - Michael Hunter, Science and society in restoration England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xii + 233. £18.50; £5.95 (paperback).

Science and Society in Restoration England. Michael Hunter

<i>Science and Society in Restoration England</i>. Michael Hunter

Science and Society in Restoration England.

Science and Society in Restoration England.

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REVIEWS AND SHORT NOTICES

Michael Hunter: Science and society in Restoration England. Cambridge: University Press, 1981, 233 pp. £18.50.

Michael Hunter: Science and society in Restoration England. Cambridge: University Press, 1981, 233 pp. £18.50.

Science and Society in Restoration England. By M. Hunter. (Pp. 233; £18.50 hb, £5.95 pb.) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 1981.

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