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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 509.4/0903
• Soggetto topico: Science - Social aspects - Europe - History - 18th century; Science - Social aspects - Europe - History - 19th century; Science - Social aspects - Europe - History - 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Bensaude-VincentBernadette BlondelChristine
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Science and spectacle in the European Enlightenment
• ISBN: 1-351-90187-7; 1-138-24579-8; 1-315-24371-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154604603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945.