Golinski, Jan

Making natural knowledge : constructivism and the history of science by Jan Golinski ( Book )
12 editions published between 1998 and 2005 in English and held by 523 libraries worldwide
"In Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science, Jan Golinski reviews recent writing on the history of science and shows how it has been dramatically reshaped by a new understanding of science itself. In the last few years, scientific knowledge has come to be seen as a product of human culture, an approach that has challenged the tradition of the history of science as a story of steady and autonomous progress. Golinski has written a sympathetic but critical survey of this exciting field of research, at a level that can be appreciated by students or anyone else who wants in introduction to contemporary thinking in the development of the sciences."--Jacket.

Science as public culture : chemistry and enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820 by Jan Golinski ( Book )
8 editions published between 1992 and 1999 in English and held by 459 libraries worldwide
Science as Public Culture joins a growing number of recent studies examining science as a practical activity in specific social settings. Jan Golinski considers the development of chemistry in Britain from 1760 to 1820, and relates it to the rise and subsequent eclipse of forms of civic life characteristic of the European Enlightenment. Within this framework the careers of prominent chemists like William Cullen, Joseph Black, Joseph Priestley, Thomas Beddoes, and Humphry Davy are interpreted in a new light. The major discoveries of the time, including nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and the electrical decomposition of water, are set against the background of alternative ways of constructing science as a public enterprise. The book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the relationship between scientific activity and processes of social and political change in a period of great transformations in chemistry and in the conditions of public life.

The sciences in enlightened Europe ( Book )
5 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 408 libraries worldwide

British weather and the climate of enlightenment by Jan Golinski ( Book )
5 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 304 libraries worldwide
Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment reveals how a new sense of the national climate emerged in the eighteenth century from the systematic recording of the weather, and how it was deployed in discussions of the health and welfare of the population. Enlightened intellectuals hailed climate's role in the development of civilization but acknowledged that human existence depended on natural forces that would never submit to rational control. Reading th.

Discussing chemistry and steam : the minutes of a coffee house philosophical society, 1780-1787 by Trevor Harvey Levere ( Book )
3 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 146 libraries worldwide

Making natural knowledge : constructivism and the history of science ( Book )
2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide

Discussing chemistry and steam the minutes of a coffee house philosophical society, 1780-1787 ( )
2 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide

Migracja żydów w Polsce by Jan Goliński ( Book )
2 editions published in 1924 in Polish and held by 3 libraries worldwide

Science as public culture : Chemistry and enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820 ( Book )
1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide

British weather and the climate of enlightenment ( Book )
1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide