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  • Histories of Science

    Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

    by Jess Keiser, Melissa Bailes, Vivian Zuluaga Papp, Professor Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, Anne M. Thell, Aaron R. Hanlon, Laura Miller, Dr. Al Coppola, Professor Helen Thompson, Professor Lisa Forman Cody, Frank Boyle, Kristin M. Girten, Adela Ramos, Ramesh Mallipeddi, Eric Gidal, Anna K. Sagal, Rajani Sudan, Professor Tobias Menely, PhD ...
    Spreading the news of scientific breakthroughs in the eighteenth centuryHistories of Science shows how different forms of media communicated scientific breakthroughs during the long eighteenth century, bringing together eighteen humanities scholars to discuss the representation, reception, and application of natural philosophy in the Atlantic world. In particular, the authors focus on descriptions ... Read more

    $35.59 USD

  • Nervous Fictions

    Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience

    by Jess Keiser ...
    "The brain contains ten thousand cells," wrote the poet Matthew Prior in 1718, "in each some active fancy dwells." In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, just as scientists began to better understand the workings of the nerves, the nervous system became the site for a series of elaborate fantasies. The pineal gland is transformed into a throne for the sovereign soul. Animal spirits march the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century

    by Sharon Alker, Emile Bojesen, Jess Domanico, Jason S. Farr, Jess Keiser, Paul Kelleher, Jamie Kinsley, Dana Gliserman Kopans, Holly Faith Nelson, Anna K. Sagal ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century explores disabled people who lived in the eighteenth century. The first four essays consider philosophical writing dating between 1663 and 1788, when the understanding of disability altered dramatically. We begin with Margaret Cavendish, whose natural philosophy rejected ideas of superiority or inferiority between individuals based upon physical or ... Read more

    $47.99 USD