03751nam 2200685Ia 450 991045906980332120200520144314.01-282-93288-897866129328850-226-72085-310.7208/9780226720852(CKB)2670000000059937(EBL)625218(OCoLC)704516598(SSID)ssj0000427771(PQKBManifestationID)11319473(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000427771(PQKBWorkID)10405945(PQKB)10033681(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123076(MiAaPQ)EBC625218(DE-B1597)523589(OCoLC)747946398(DE-B1597)9780226720852(Au-PeEL)EBL625218(CaPaEBR)ebr10433763(CaONFJC)MIL293288(EXLCZ)99267000000005993720020412d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrScience in the age of sensibility[electronic resource] the sentimental empiricists of the French enlightment /Jessica RiskinChicago University of Chicago Press20021 online resource (355 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-72079-9 0-226-72078-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-321) and index.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 -- IndexEmpiricism 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.ScienceFranceHistory18th centuryEnlightenmentFranceSensitivity (Personality trait)Electronic books.ScienceHistoryEnlightenmentSensitivity (Personality trait)509.44/09/033TB 2360rvkRiskin Jessica964659MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459069803321Science in the age of sensibility2188632UNINA