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Essays on David Hume, medical men and the Scottish Enlightenment : industry, knowledge and humanity /
- Title
- Essays on David Hume, medical men and the Scottish Enlightenment : industry, knowledge and humanity / Roger L. Emerson.
- Author
- Emerson, Roger L.
- Publication
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 295 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-278) and index.
- 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 forgotten friend : David Hume (26 April 1711- 25 August 1776) -- Hume's intellectual development : part II -- Hume's histories -- A note on Hume and political economy -- Numbering the medics -- What is to be done about the Scottish Enlightenment?
- ISBN
- 9780754666288 (alk. paper)
- 075466628X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008037959
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library