Books by Richard (Griffith University Yeo

Defining Science, first published in 1993, deals with the major role of the historian and philosopher of science, William Whewell, in early Victorian debates about the nature of science and its moral and cultural value.

Richard Yeo places eighteenth-century English dictionaries of arts and sciences in a rich cultural framework that includes the arrangement of knowledge, the Republic of Letters, copyright debates, and the specialisation of science. This elegantly illustrated book provides a major contribution to Enlightenment studies and the history of ideas.