In ""Everyday Nature"", Sara S. Gronim shows how scientific advances were received in the early modern world, from the time Europeans settled in America until just before the American Revolution. A fascinating portrait of colonial life, this book traces a series of innovations that were disseminated throughout the Atlantic world during the Enlightenment, and shows how colonial New Yorkers integrated new knowledge into their lives.
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SARA S. GRONIM is an associate professor in the department of history at Long Island University and the 2008 recipient of the History of Science Society's Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize.
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Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. Octavo, softcover, as new except name scrawled on back endpaper in white and b &w pictorial wraps. Gronim shows how scientific advances were received in the early modern world, from the time Europeans settled in America until just before the American Revolution. Settlers approached a wide range of innovations, such as smallpox inoculation, maps and surveys, Copernican cosmology, and Ben Franklin's experiments with electricity, with great skepticism. New Yorkers in particular were distrustful because of the chronic political and religious factionalism in the colony. N° de réf. du vendeur 84653
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