Works by Margaret Jacob
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- Scientific culture and the making of the industrial West.Margaret C. Jacob -1997 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Margaret C. Jacob.As more and more historians acknowledge the central signifcance of science and technology with that of modern society, the need for a good, general history of the achievements of the Scientific Revolution has grown. Scientific Culture and The Making of the Industrial West seeks to explain this historical process by looking at how and why scientific knowledge became such an integral part of the culture of Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and how this in turn lead to the (...) Industrial Revolution. This comparative study not only looks at England, and its success, but follows through with the history of France, the Netherlands, and Germany. (shrink)
- Telling the trugh about history.Joyce Appleby,Lynn Hunt &Margaret Jacob -1995 -History and Theory 34 (4):320-339.
- John toland and the Newtonian ideology.Margaret Candee Jacob -1969 -Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 32 (1):307-331.
- The Anglican Origins of Modern Science: The Metaphysical Foundations of the Whig Constitution.James Jacob &Margaret Jacob -1980 -Isis 71 (2):251-267.
- Clandestine philosophy: new studies on subversive manuscripts in early modern Europe, 1620-1823.Gianni Paganini,Margaret C. Jacob &John Christian Laursen (eds.) -2020 - London: University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.Clandestine philosophical manuscripts, made up of forbidden works including erotic texts, political pamphlets, satires of court life, forbidden religious texts, and books about the occult, had an avid readership in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, becoming objects of historical research by the twentieth century. The purveyors of the clandestine could be found in the Dutch Republic, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, and not least in Paris or London. Despite the heavy risks, including prison, the circulation of these manuscripts was a prosperous venture. (...) After Ira Wade's pioneering contribution (1938), Clandestine Philosophy is the first work in English entirely focused on the philosophical clandestine manuscripts that preceded and accompanied the birth of the Enlightenment. Topics from philosophy, political and religious thought, and moral and sexual behaviour are addressed by contemporary authors working in both America and Europe. These manuscripts shed light on the birth of pornography and provide an important avenue for investigating philosophical, religious, political, and social critique. (shrink)
- How Radical Was the Enlightenment? What Do We Mean by Radical?Margaret C. Jacob -2014 -Diametros 40:99-114.The Radical Enlightenment has been much discussed and its original meaning somewhat distorted. In 1981 my concept of the storm that unleashed a new, transnational intellectual movement possessed a strong contextual and political element that I believed, and still believe, to be critically important. Idealist accounts of enlightened ideas that divorce them from politics leave out the lived quality of the new radicalism born in reaction to monarchical and clerical absolutism. Taking the religious impulse seriously and working to defang it (...) of bellicosity would require years of labor. First all the world’s religions had to be surveyed, see Picart’s seven folio volumes; and Rousseau’s Savoyard vicar had to both preach and live religion simply as true virtue; and finally Jefferson editing the Bible so as to get the irrational parts simply removed, thus making people more fit to grant a complete religious toleration. Throughout the century all these approaches to revealed religion may be legitimately described as radical. Each produced a different recommendation for its replacement. As I have now come to see, the pantheism I identified in 1981 would lead in many directions, among them lay the search to understand all human religiosity and to articulate a universal natural religion. (shrink)
- Mechanical science on the factory floor: The early industrial revolution in leeds.Margaret C. Jacob -2007 -History of Science 45 (2):197-222.No categories
- Newton and the French Prophets: New Evidence.Margaret C. Jacob -1978 -History of Science 16 (2):134-142.
- Reflections on the Ideological Meanings of Western Science from Boyle and Newton to the Postmodernists.Margaret C. Jacob -1995 -History of Science 33 (3):333-357.
- Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687–1851.Margaret C. Jacob &Larry Stewart -2004 - Harvard University Press.From 1687, the year when Newton published his Principia, to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, science gradually became central to Western thought and economic development. The book examines how, despite powerful opposition on the Continent, a Newtonian understanding gained acceptance and practical application.
- A Women’s Scientific Society in the West.Margaret C. Jacob &Dorothée Sturkenboom -2003 -Isis 94 (2):217-252.The Natuurkundig Genootschap der Dames , formally established by and for women, met regularly from 1785 to 1881 and sporadically until 1887. It challenges our stereotypes both of women and the physical sciences during the eighteenth century and of the intellectual interests open to women in the early European republics. This essay aims not simply to identify the society and its members but to describe their pursuits and consider what their story adds to the history of Western science. What does (...) this society’s existence tell us about the relationship between women and early science in general and about science and society in the Dutch setting in particular? Science and gender look rather different when observed through the activities of the immensely prosperous women of Middelburg, citizens of one of the most highly literate Western countries. The elite lives of the first‐generation members of the women’s society also offer us a glimpse into the early domestication of science, a process vital to its acceptance and assimilation. (shrink)
- The limits of relativism-restatement and remembrance-response.Joyce Appleby,Lynn Hunt &Margaret Jacob -1995 -Journal of the History of Ideas 56 (4):675-680.
- Enlightenment Studies.Lynn Hunt &Margaret Jacob -2003 - In Alan Charles Kors,Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 418--9.
- Being cheerfully enlightened.Margaret C. Jacob -2003 -History of Science 41 (3):287-292.No categories
- Eloge: Dame Frances Amelia Yates, 28 November 1899-29 September 1981.Margaret Jacob &Edward Gosselin -1982 -Isis 73 (3):424-426.
- Echo's van een wetenschappelijke revolutie: De mechanistische natuurwetenschap aan de Leuvense Artesfaculteit G. Vanpaemel.Margaret Jacob -1990 -Isis 81 (4):778-778.
- Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution. Lisa Jardine.Margaret Jacob -2001 -Isis 92 (1):179-180.
- Millenarianism and Science in the Late Seventeenth Century.Margaret C. Jacob -1976 -Journal of the History of Ideas 37 (2):335.
- Prophecy and Reason: The Dutch Collegiants in the Early Enlightenment. Andrew C. Fix.Margaret Jacob -1992 -Isis 83 (1):137-138.
- Private Beliefs in Public Temples: The New Religiosity of the Eighteenth Century.Margaret Jacob -1992 -Social Research: An International Quarterly 59:60-84.No categories
- Science and Politics in the Late Twentieth Century.Margaret Jacob -1992 -Social Research: An International Quarterly 59:487-504.No categories
- The Apocalyptic Politics of Richard Price and Joseph Priestley: A Study in Late Eighteenth-Century English Republican Millennialism by Jack Fruchtman, Jr.Margaret Jacob -1985 -Isis 76:128-128.
- The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800Robert Darnton.Margaret Jacob -1980 -Isis 71 (3):481-482.
- The Changing of the Gods. Frank E. Manuel.Margaret Jacob -1984 -Isis 75 (3):584-585.
- The Enlightenment Redefined: The Formation of Modern Civil Society.Margaret Jacob -1991 -Social Research: An International Quarterly 58.
- The French Prophets: The History of a Millenarian Group in Eighteenth-Century EnglandHillel Schwartz.Margaret Jacob -1982 -Isis 73 (3):473-474.
- The Radical Enlightenment and Freemasonry: where we are now.Margaret C. Jacob -2013 -Philosophica 88 (1).
- The Secular Enlightenment.Margaret C. Jacob -2019 - Princeton University Press.A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people’s everyday lives The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics, pantheists, pornographers, readers, and travelers. Margaret Jacob, one of our most esteemed historians of the (...) Enlightenment, reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms. She takes readers from London and Amsterdam to Berlin, Vienna, Turin, and Naples, drawing on rare archival materials to show how ideas central to the emergence of secular democracy touched all facets of daily life. Human frailties once attributed to sin were now viewed through the lens of the newly conceived social sciences. People entered churches not to pray but to admire the architecture, and spent their Sunday mornings reading a newspaper or even a risqué book. The secular-minded pursued their own temporal and commercial well-being without concern for the life hereafter, regarding their successes as the rewards for their actions, their failures as the result of blind economic forces. A majestic work of intellectual and cultural history, The Secular Enlightenment demonstrates how secular values and pursuits took hold of eighteenth-century Europe, spilled into the American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the Western world for generations to come. (shrink)No categories
- The Truth of Newton's Science and the Truth of Science's History: Heroic Science at its Eighteenth-Century Formulation.Margaret C. Jacob -2000 - In Margaret J. Osler,Rethinking the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge University Press. pp. 315--332.No categories
- From Stevin to Spinoza: An Essay on Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic (review).Margaret C. Jacob -2003 -Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (2):276-277.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 41.2 (2003) 276-277 [Access article in PDF] Wiep Van Bunge. From Stevin to Spinoza: An Essay on Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Pp. xii + 217. Cloth, $80.00 By 1660 there were probably more followers of Descartes in the Dutch Republic, population 1.4 million, than in France, population 20 million. Protestantism and prosperity encouraged high rates of literacy and (...) the universities of Leiden and Utrecht were among the liveliest in the world. This vibrancy infused the metaphors that Descartes put into his great Discours de la methode published first in Leiden in 1637. In it he spoke about the beauty of cities that looked as if they had been built by a single architect and of the freedom to be found among people so busy with their business as to leave thinkers to their pursuits. Indirectly he spoke about his adopted homeland where he found many followers—some more eager than loyal. By the 1640s disputes raged in the Republic and the anti-Cartesian forces were led by the Aristotelian and anti-Copernican Gisbertus Voetius. What has been missing in our scholarship up to now has been any convincing account as to why these disputes occurred, and how they resonated within the Dutch context. Wiep Van Bunge's book takes a big step toward closing that knowledge gap.Van Bunge convincingly argues that the vibrancy of the stadtholder-less period up to 1672 produced a willingness to entertain new ideas. It also did not hurt to have Descartes on the scene and active on behalf of his mechanical philosophy, even to the point of addressing the Utrecht magistrates publicly and asking that his critics be chastised. What is remarkable—especially given the resistance to Descartes seen at Oxford and Cambridge—was the speed with which Cartesian ideas entered the Dutch classrooms where as many as a third of the students came from abroad. Again Van Bunge provides context when he starts with the Dutch engineer Simon Stevin and demonstrates the vitality of mathematics for a commercial society but also for a militant one. (The Netherlands was at war with Spain up to 1609.) A recent exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, April to July 2002, also illustrates another aspect of mathematics in the Republic. Precisely in the 1630s when Descartes was putting the finishing touches on his Discours, Pieter Saenredam applied geometry to the interiors of the elegant Utrecht churches so as to give his paintings a regularity and precision worthy of the Cartesian dream of order and clarity. The Dutch commitment to discipline and order also made their army one of the most accomplished in the world. It was perhaps over-determined that Descartes, who had trained with it, would find such a sympathetic audience in the Republic.One of the more fascinating aspects of Van Bunge's detailed study, first of Cartesianism and then of Spinozism in the Republic, concerns the political and ideological meanings to be extracted from the new philosophy. Hobbes also finds a place in the narrative, surprisingly taken up by republicans eager to construct a state that could control the passions. Abraham van Berkel, who put Hobbes's Leviathan into Dutch in 1667, gave the allegiance of his text and himself to Jan de Witt and the cause of the regents and the estates. We can only wonder what Hobbes would have made of the association. The republican affiliations of the mechanical philosophy in the Republic provide a distinctively Dutch context to the [End Page 276] political writings of Spinoza, the most famous and outrageous Cartesian of the century. Van Bunge is especially deft in finding Spinozists and providing far more evidence than I could back in 1981 when I argued for a radical enlightenment within the late seventeenth-century Dutch context (see The Radical Enlightenment. Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans [London: 1981]). None of these positions with their deeply heretical implications could be taken lightly or without danger. Men lost... (shrink)
- Review: Factoring Mary Poovey's A History of the Modern Fact. [REVIEW]Margaret C. Jacob -2001 -History and Theory 40 (2):280-289.
- Science and Social Passion: The Case of Seventeenth-Century EnglandScience and Society in Restoration England.John Evelyn and His World. A BiographyWitch-Hunting, Magic and the New Philosophy. An Introduction to Debates of the Scientific Revolution, 1450-1750.The Reenchantment of the World.The Death of Nature. Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. [REVIEW]Margaret Jacob,Michael Hunter,John Bowle,Brian Easlea,Morris Berman &Carolyn Merchant -1982 -Journal of the History of Ideas 43 (2):331.
- Benjamin J. Kaplan. Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe. 415 pp., figs., illus., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2007. $29.95. [REVIEW]Margaret Jacob -2008 -Isis 99 (4):840-841.
- Eric Jorink. Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575–1715. Translated by, Peter Mason. xxi + 472 pp., illus., bibl., index. Originally published in 2006. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2010. $183. [REVIEW]Margaret C. Jacob -2011 -Isis 102 (4):763-763.No categories
- Patricia Fara. Newton: The Making of a Genius. xvi + 347 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. $27.95 .James Gleick. Isaac Newton. 288 pp., bibl., index. New York: Pantheon Books, 2003. $22. [REVIEW]Margaret C. Jacob -2004 -Isis 95 (4):703-704.
- Peter M. Jones, Industrial Enlightenment: Science, Technology, and Culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands, 1760–1820. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008. Pp. xii+260. ISBN 978-0-7190-7770-8. £55.00. [REVIEW]Margaret Jacob -2009 -British Journal for the History of Science 42 (3):462.No categories
- Secularisering en natuurwetenschap in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw: Bernard Nieuwentijt by Rienk H. Vermij. [REVIEW]Margaret Jacob -1993 -Isis 84:387-388.
- Science, Technology, and Society: A Historical Perspective by Martin Fichman. [REVIEW]Margaret Jacob -1995 -Isis 86:303-304.
- (1 other version)The Importance of Early Modern European Science and the State of the Field. [REVIEW]Margaret Jacob -2007 -Isis 98:361-365.
- The Scientific Revolution in National Context by Roy Porter; Mikulas Teich. [REVIEW]Margaret Jacob -1994 -Isis 85:511-513.
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