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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154604603321

Titolo

Science and spectacle in the European Enlightenment / / edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Christine Blondel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-90187-7

1-138-24579-8

1-315-24371-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945

Altri autori (Persone)

Bensaude-VincentBernadette

BlondelChristine

Disciplina

509.4/0903

Soggetti

Science - Social aspects - Europe - History - 18th century

Science - Social aspects - Europe - History - 19th century

Science - Social aspects - Europe - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The laboratory, the workshop, and the theatre of experiment / Larry Stewart -- 2. Technology, curiosity and utility in France and in England in the eighteenth century / Liliane Pérez -- 3. Amusing physics / Jessica Riskin -- 4. Experimental physics in Enlightenment Paris : the practice of popularization in urban culture / Michael R. Lynn -- 5. Domestic spectacles : electrical instruments between business and conversation / Paola Bertucci -- 6. The sale of shocks and sparks : itinerant electricians in the German Enlightenment / Oliver Hochadel -- 7. Between commerce and philanthropy : chemistry courses in eighteenth-century Paris / Christine Lehman -- 8. Joseph Priestley and the chemical sublime in British public science / Jan Golinski -- 9. Chemistry on stage : G.F. Rouelle and the theatricality of eighteenth-century chemistry / Lissa Roberts -- 10. Honoré Fragonard, anatomical virtuoso / Jonathan Simon.