1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459069803321

Autore

Riskin Jessica

Titolo

Science in the age of sensibility [[electronic resource] ] : the sentimental empiricists of the French enlightment / / Jessica Riskin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002

ISBN

1-282-93288-8

9786612932885

0-226-72085-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Classificazione

TB 2360

Disciplina

509.44/09/033

Soggetti

Science - France - History - 18th century

Enlightenment - France

Sensitivity (Personality trait)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-321) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One. Introduction: Sensibility and Enlightenment Science -- Chapter Two. The Blind and the Mathematically Inclined -- Chapter Three. Poor Richard's Leyden Jar -- Chapter Four. From Electricity to Economy -- Chapter Five. The Lawyer and the Lightning Rod -- Chapter Six. The Mesmerism Investigation and the Crisis of Sensibilist Science -- Chapter Seven. Languages of Science and Revolution -- Chapter Eight. Conclusion: The Legacy of the Sentimental Empiricists -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 electrical physics,



ascribing desires to nature, engaged French economic reformers; and how the question of the role of language in science and social life linked disputes over Antoine Lavoisier's new chemical names to the founding of France's modern system of civic education. Recasting the Age of Reason by stressing its conjunction with the Age of Sensibility, Riskin offers an entirely new perspective on the development of modern science and the history of the Enlightenment.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796692003321

Autore

Schultz Kerstin

Titolo

Light spaces / / Kerstin Schultz, Hedwig Wiedemann-Tokarz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, [Switzerland] : , : Birkhäuser, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-0356-0907-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

729

Soggetti

Interior architecture

Lightweight construction

Drywall construction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Spatial Concepts -- Spatial Conditions -- Material -- Elements of Interior Space -- Joining, Connecting, and Dividing -- Appendix

Sommario/riassunto

Die bauphysikalischen und komfortrelevanten Eigenschaften zeichnen den Gips-Trockenbau als besonders nachhaltige und vielseitige Bauweise aus. Das Buch verknüpft das große architektonische und skulpturale Potenzial dieser Bauweise mit den konstruktiven Anforderungen. Sein Fokus liegt auf der Systemvielfalt, den spezifischen Abhängigkeiten und deren konsequenter Umsetzung in einer Entwurfsidee. Raumkonzeptionen und Elemente in Bestandsgebäuden oder Neubauten werden kategorisiert und ihre Umsetzung im Detail dargestellt. Zahlreiche Beispiele zur Detaillierung



und Fügung von Bauteilen erläutern darüber hinaus den Wirkungszusammenhang von Licht, Farbe, Material, Oberfläche und Konstruktion.Zeichnungen in verschiedenen Maßstäben veranschaulichen die räumlichen und tektonischen Beziehungen.

The building physics and comfort-relevant properties of gypsum drywall construction make it a particularly sustainable and versatile construction method. The book links the great architectural and sculptural potential of this building method with its construction requirements. Its focus is on the diversity of the system, its specific prerequisites, and its systematic implementation in design ideas. The space concept and elements in existing and new buildings are analyzed, and their implementation illustrated in detail. In addition, numerous examples of details and building components explain the effect of light, color, material, surface, and construction. Drawings at different scales illustrate the tectonic relationships in space.