Info
Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge / / edited by Simon Schaffer, John Tresch, Pasquale Gagliardi
| Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge / / edited by Simon Schaffer, John Tresch, Pasquale Gagliardi |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXI, 271 p. 57 illus., 32 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 601 |
| Soggetto topico |
Technology - Philosophy
Literature and technology Mass media and literature Digital humanities Arts Geographic information systems Particles (Nuclear physics) Quantum field theory Philosophy of Technology Literature and Technology Digital Humanities Geographical Information System Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory |
| ISBN |
9783319425955
3319425951 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface: Text And Context: Genius Loci; Pasquale Gagliardi -- Introduction; Simon Schaffer -- Part I. Visions -- 1. Re-Visioning The World: Mapping The Lithosphere; Adam Lowe And Jerry Brotton -- 2. Architects Of Knowledge; Pierre Chabard -- 3. Pictorialism (Prelude & Fugue); Cheryce Von Xylander -- 4. The Unending Quantity Of Objects: An Observation On Museums And Their Presentation Modes; Anke Te Heesen -- Part II. Worlds -- 5. Cosmopragmatics And Petabytes; John Tresch -- 6. Gaia Without The Sphere; Bruno Latour -- 7. Mapping Dark Matter And The Venice Paradox; David Turnbull -- Part III. Economies -- 8. The Web, Google And Cosmograms; Steve Crossan -- 9. Rhetoric, Economics, And Nature; Deirdre N. Mccloskey -- 10. Lodestar; Richard Powers. . |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255203803321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Enraciner l’empire : Une autre histoire du jardin botanique de Calcutta (1860-1910) / Marine Bellégo
| Enraciner l’empire : Une autre histoire du jardin botanique de Calcutta (1860-1910) / Marine Bellégo |
| Autore | Bellégo Marine |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Paris, : Publications scientifiques du Muséum, 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (559 p.) |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
FeuerhahnWolf
GirardAlbéric LamyDenis SchafferSimon |
| Soggetto topico |
Asian Studies
History dix-neuvième siècle botanique empire britannique Inde archives jardins nineteenth century botany British Empire India gardens |
| ISBN | 2-85653-970-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910522605303321 |
Bellégo Marine
|
||
| Paris, : Publications scientifiques du Muséum, 2022 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences / / by Adriana Craciun ; edited by Adriana Craciun, Simon Schaffer
| The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences / / by Adriana Craciun ; edited by Adriana Craciun, Simon Schaffer |
| Autore | Craciun Adriana |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVI, 322 p. 54 illus., 36 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 809.033 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 18th century
Literature - History and criticism Books - History European literature Eighteenth-Century Literature Literary History History of the Book European Literature |
| ISBN |
9781137443793
1137443790 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction; Adriana Craciun and Simon Schaffer -- PART I: NATURAL CURIOSITIES -- 1. Essay: Handling objects in natural history collections; Mary Terrall -- 2. Exhibit: Curious work; Mary Brooks -- 3. Exhibit: The lives of Mrs Delaney’s paper plants; Kim Sloan -- 4. Exhibit: A pathological pot; Samuel J.M.M. Alberti -- 5. Essay: The seeds of disaster: relics of La Pérouse; Adriana Craciun -- PART II: TOOLS AND TRAVELS -- 6. Essay: A Bird in the hand, or, manufacturing credibility in the instruments of Enlightenment science; Richard Dunn -- 7. Exhibit: Mapping new spaces; Patricia Seed -- 8. Exhibit: By hand or by engine; Richard Dunn -- 9. Exhibit: The ship as object: the launch of the Queen Charlotte; James Davey -- 10. Exhibit: Instrument of controversy: two copies of the Nautical Almanac; Sophie Waring -- 11. Exhibit: The Navy's new clothes; Amy Miller -- 12. Essay: Unwrapping gods: illuminating encounters with gods, comets and missionaries; Maia Nuku -- PART III: ARTIFICIAL CURIOSITIES -- 13. Essay: Persons and things; Jonathan Lamb -- 14. Exhibit: The fabric of domestic life: rethinking the humble painted cloth; Tara Hamling -- 15. Exhibit: The Willdey telescope: instrument for fashion, learning and amusement; Alexi Baker -- 16. Exhibit: Cataloguing curiosities: Whitby’s barkcloth book; Billie Lythberg -- 17. Exhibit: Art and things: Fragonard’s colour box; Hannah Williams -- 18. Exhibit: Keep within compass; Katy Barrett -- 19. Exhibit: Perfected thing: a lay figure by Paul Huot; Jane Munro -- PART IV: EXOTIC GOODS -- 20. Essay: A home away from home: Sophie Magdalene’s clockwork chinoiserie; Josefine Baark -- 21. Exhibit: The Chinese tallow tree: from asset in Asia to curse in Carolina; Charles Jarvis -- 22. Exhibit: Global connections: Punch, porcelain and maritime material culture; John McAleer -- 23. Exhibit: A damaged and discarded thing; Anne Gerritsen -- 24. Exhibit: Sarah Sophia Banks, Adam Afzelius and a coin from Sierra Leone; Catherine Eagleton -- 25. Exhibit: A Pacific macrocosm: Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique; Billie Lythberg -- 26. Exhibit: Columen vitae: pharmaceutical packaging 1750-1850; Jennifer Basford -- 27. Essay: Tropical lifestyles, luxury and the health of Britain’s global power, 1793-1825; Jonathan Eacott -- PART V: WORLDS ON PAPER -- 28. Essay: Extra-illustrations: the order of the book and the fantasia of the library; Luisa Calè -- 29. Exhibit: Paperslips; Leanna McLaughlin -- 30. Exhibit: Advertising and print culture in the eighteenth century; Philippa Hubbard -- 31. Exhibit: Kitty Fisher: the commodification of celebrity; Faramerz Dabhoiwala -- 32. Exhibit: An admirable typology; Billie Lythberg, Maia Nuku and Amiria Salmond -- 33. Essay: Connoisseurship and the communication of anatomical knowledge: the case of William Cheselden’s Osteographia (1733); Alexander Wragge-Morley -- Bibliography -- Index.-. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255235003321 |
|
Craciun Adriana
|
||
| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||