For the demographer and economic historian all movements of population are important and deserve, so far as possible, to be explained; but for the student of social and medical history the modern rise of population is a unique event whose interpretation is not only of the greatest historical interest but is also essential to an understanding of some of the most formidable contemporary problems....

This article discusses poetical evolutions in Jesuit theater Flanders through a comparison between plays of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. While most research field focusses on first centuries order, disregarding century because its decreased social relevance, this surveys significant changes eighteenth-century plays. Although continuities baroque spectacle different phases order have ...

This essay examines the way in which medical consultations by letter were employed to seek and receive advice on venereal diseases in eighteenth-century France. Epistolary consultations from across eighteenth-century Europe have been used by historians for purposes that have included examining physician/patient power relationships; as a reflection of medical practice; to analyze perceptions of ...

In chapter V, titled “Change and Progress,” in his now classic Evolutionary Economics: A Study of Change in Economic Thought, David Hamilton contrasted beliefs in magic and mystic potencies with the matter-of-fact knowledge of technology in the form of tools, machines, and techniques of production (1999, 93, 109, 111, 112). As with most evolutionary economists, his view of technological change ...

For historians of science, natural philosophical interest in magnetism has not been strongly associated with the eighteenth century, so that the agenda for this book may not seem a promising one. The seventeenth century opened with the publication of the influential work by William Gilbert, and magnetism continued to be prominent in important works of natural philosophy and cosmology: Kepler an...

For historians of science, natural philosophical interest in magnetism has not been strongly associated with the eighteenth century, so that the agenda for this book may not seem a promising one. The seventeenth century opened with the publication of the influential work by William Gilbert, and magnetism continued to be prominent in important works of natural philosophy and cosmology: Kepler an...

orthodox; for Flynn, although language inscribes and revises reality, the body is a fixed term: a formless mass of base material which frustrates inscription and transcendance. Moreover, it has no anatomy or physiology. Although she mentions George Cheyne's English malady, she does not consider the implications of the psychosomatic nature of this disease. The only creature in her book which enj...

I review here key research in the early years of the field of blood chemistry. The review includes successes and limitations of animal chemistry in the critical period of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Eighteenth century medical theories emphasized the primacy of body solids. Body fluids were governed by the tenets of humoral pathology. After Boerhaave sparked interest in the chemistr...

This article examines the current state of research at intersections book history and digital humanities within field eighteenth-century studies. It addresses popular intellectual origins nexus between surveys developments in this area studies last decade. The trends field, with a particular focus on large-scale corpora databases use distant reading methods, assesses what directions future migh...