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The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden
Empire, Science, and Intellectual Culture in British New York
Langbeschreibung
Was there a conservative Enlightenment? Could a self-proclaimed man of learning and progressive science also have been an agent of monarchy and reaction? Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776), an educated Scottish emigrant and powerful colonial politician, was at the forefront of American intellectual culture in the mid-eighteenth century. While living in rural New York, he recruited family, friends, servants, and slaves into multiple scientific ventures and built a transatlantic network of contacts and correspondents that included Benjamin Franklin and Carl Linnaeus. Over several decades, Colden pioneered colonial botany, produced new theories of animal and human physiology, authored an influential history of the Iroquois, and developed bold new principles of physics and an engaging explanation of the cause of gravity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction PART I. BEGINNINGS1. Enlightened Age 2. Pursuit of Gentility 3. Intellectuals PART II. ACTIVE MATTERS4. Knowledge of Empires 5. Otium 6. Philosophical Actions PART III. POLITICS7. Against Partisanship 8. Colden's Ordeal
John M. Dixon
ISBN-13:
9781501703508
Veröffentl:
2016
Seiten:
264
Autor:
John M. Dixon
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
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