LEADER 03845nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910960366703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612932885 010 $a9781282932883 010 $a1282932888 010 $a9780226720852 010 $a0226720853 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226720852 035 $a(CKB)2670000000059937 035 $a(EBL)625218 035 $a(OCoLC)704516598 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000427771 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11319473 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000427771 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10405945 035 $a(PQKB)10033681 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123076 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC625218 035 $a(DE-B1597)523589 035 $a(OCoLC)747946398 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226720852 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL625218 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10433763 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293288 035 $a(Perlego)1851686 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000059937 100 $a20020412d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aScience in the age of sensibility $ethe sentimental empiricists of the French enlightment /$fJessica Riskin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (355 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a9780226720791 311 0 $a0226720799 311 0 $a9780226720784 311 0 $a0226720780 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [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. 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. 606 $aScience$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aEnlightenment$zFrance 606 $aSensitivity (Personality trait) 615 0$aScience$xHistory 615 0$aEnlightenment 615 0$aSensitivity (Personality trait) 676 $a509.44/09/033 686 $aTB 2360$2rvk 700 $aRiskin$b Jessica$01803887 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910960366703321 996 $aScience in the age of sensibility$94365147 997 $aUNINA