Full-Employment Utopias
Christopher Hill, 16 July 1981
Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing, 1516-1700
by J.C. Davis.
Cambridge, 427 pp., £25, March 1981,0 521 23396 8 Show More
by J.C. Davis.
Cambridge, 427 pp., £25, March 1981,
Science and Society in Restoration England
by Michael Hunter.
Cambridge, 232 pp., £18.50, March 1981,0 521 22866 2 Show More
by Michael Hunter.
Cambridge, 232 pp., £18.50, March 1981,
“... J.R. and M.C. Jacob have produced new and exciting syntheses in the grand manner. The object of Dr Hunter’s book is to reconsider the ‘academic dimension’ of the new science, and its institutions. He avoids ‘uncritical counting of heads’ as a means of deciding how many Fellows of the Royal Society were ‘Puritans’. The answer, of course, always ... ”