Essays on David Hume, medical men, and the Scottish Enlightenment : industry, knowledge, and humanit...
Essays on David Hume, medical men, and the Scottish Enlightenment : industry, knowledge, and humanit...
Essays on David Hume, medical men, and the Scottish Enlightenment : industry, knowledge, and humanity / by Roger L. Emerson.
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Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2009.
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N941.107/10
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English
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xvi, 295 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
The world in which the Scottish Enlightenment took shape -- Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll (1682-1761) : patronage and the creation of the Scottish Enlightenment -- How many Scots were enlightened? -- What did eighteenth-century Scottish students read? -- Our excellent and never to be forgot...
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Publisher
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2009.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2009.
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"David Hume, writing in 1752, commented that 'industry, knowledge and humanity are linked together by an indissoluble chain'. Collectively this volume of essays embraces many of the topics which Hume included under 'industry, knowledge and humanity': from the European Enlightenment and the Scots' relation to it, to Scottish social history and its r...
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Essays on David Hume, medical men, and the Scottish Enlightenment : industry, knowledge, and humanity / by Roger L. Emerson.
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Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [249]-278.
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c2009.
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N941.107/10
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ISBN
9780754666288 (alk. paper)
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941.107
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991002473609702626
