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[289]-321) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tChapter One. Introduction: Sensibility and Enlightenment Science --$tChapter Two. The Blind and the Mathematically Inclined --$tChapter Three. Poor Richard's Leyden Jar --$tChapter Four. From Electricity to Economy --$tChapter Five. The Lawyer and the Lightning Rod --$tChapter Six. The Mesmerism Investigation and the Crisis of Sensibilist Science --$tChapter Seven. Languages of Science and Revolution --$tChapter Eight. Conclusion: The Legacy of the Sentimental Empiricists --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aEmpiricism 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. 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