How Long to Read Science in the Age of Sensibility

How Long Does it Take to Read Science in the Age of Sensibility?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 48 minutes to read Science in the Age of Sensibility by Jessica Riskin

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism," natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion. Riskin argues that sentimental empiricism brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics. She shows, for instance, how the study of blindness, led by ideas about the mental and moral role of vision and by cataract surgeries, shaped the first school for the blind; how Benjamin Franklin's...

How long is Science in the Age of Sensibility?

Science in the Age of Sensibility by Jessica Riskin is 338 pages long, and a total of 87,204 words.

This makes it 114% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Science in the Age of Sensibility Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 56 minutes to read Science in the Age of Sensibility aloud.

What Reading Level is Science in the Age of Sensibility?

Science in the Age of Sensibility is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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