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Reconsidering the Enlightenment through ideas, beliefs, and practices concerning the weather, Jan Golinski aims to reshape our understanding of the movement and its legacy for modern environmental thinking. With its combination of cultural history and the history of science, \"British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment\" counters the claim that Enlightenment progress set humans against nature, instead revealing that intellectuals of the age drew characteristically modern conclusions about the inextricability of nature and culture.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50066401984785,"sku":"GOR009643095","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53218392736017,"sku":"CIN0226302059G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0292777191.jpg?v=1750812602"},{"product_id":"making-natural-knowledge-book-jan-golinski-9780226302317","title":"Making Natural Knowledge","description":"Arguably the best available introduction to constructivism, a research paradigm that has dominated the history of science for the past forty years, \"Making Natural Knowledge\" reflects on the importance of this theory, tells the history of its rise to prominence, and traces its most important tensions. Viewing scientific knowledge as a product of human culture, Jan Golinski challenges the traditional trajectory of the history of science as steady and autonomous progress. In exploring topics such as the social identity of the scientist, the significance of places where science is practiced, and the roles played by language, instruments, and images, \"Making Natural Knowledge\" sheds new light on the relations between science and other cultural domains.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50112326041873,"sku":"CIN0226302318G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000284545297,"sku":"NIN9780226302317","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226302318.jpg?v=1750974010"},{"product_id":"making-natural-knowledge-book-jan-golinski-9780521449137","title":"Making Natural Knowledge","description":"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. 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