Ancients and moderns : a study of the background of the battle of the books

Author(s)

• Jones, Richard Foster

Bibliographic Information

Ancients and moderns : a study of the background of the battle of the books

by Richard Foster Jones

（Washington University studies, new ser. . Language and literature ; no. 6）

[Washington University], 1936

Note

"Fifteen years ago I published in the Washington University studies a treatise entitled 'The background of The battle of the books' ... The present study is an amplified treatment of the same subject ... [and] aims at being a history not of science but of the idea of science in the seventeenth century."--Pref

"Notes [bibliographical]": p. [285]-358

Details

• NCID: BA8460006X
• LCCN: 36020208
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: St. Louis
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 358 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : Q127.G4
  • DC : 509.03
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Battle of the books
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA18774942