Science in the age of sensibility [[electronic resource] ] : the sentimental empiricists of the French enlightment / / Jessica Riskin |
Autore | Riskin Jessica |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (355 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.44/09/033 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - France - History - 18th century
Enlightenment - France Sensitivity (Personality trait) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-93288-8
9786612932885 0-226-72085-3 |
Classificazione | TB 2360 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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 -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459069803321 |
Riskin Jessica | ||
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Science in the age of sensibility [[electronic resource] ] : the sentimental empiricists of the French enlightment / / Jessica Riskin |
Autore | Riskin Jessica |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (355 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.44/09/033 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - France - History - 18th century
Enlightenment - France Sensitivity (Personality trait) |
Soggetto non controllato | scientific, sentiment, sentimental, empiricist, french, france, enlightenment, facts, investigation, academic, scholarly, research, natural, knowledge, experience, emotion, institutional, politics, political, mental, moral, blind, physics, economy, economic, reform, reformer, language, science, social life, society, civic, education, history, historical |
ISBN |
1-282-93288-8
9786612932885 0-226-72085-3 |
Classificazione | TB 2360 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- 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 -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785471903321 |
Riskin Jessica | ||
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Science in the age of sensibility : the sentimental empiricists of the French enlightment / / Jessica Riskin |
Autore | Riskin Jessica |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (355 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.44/09/033 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - France - History - 18th century
Enlightenment - France Sensitivity (Personality trait) |
ISBN |
1-282-93288-8
9786612932885 0-226-72085-3 |
Classificazione | TB 2360 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- 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 -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811016103321 |
Riskin Jessica | ||
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Utopia's garden [[electronic resource] ] : French natural history from Old Regime to Revolution / / E.C. Spary |
Autore | Spary E. C (Emma C.) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (339 p.) |
Disciplina | 508.44/09/033 |
Soggetto topico | Natural history - France - History - 18th century |
Soggetto non controllato | utopian, history, historical, nature, natural, outdoors, french, france, europe, european, western, regime, revolution, academic, scholarly, research, botanical, garden, jardin, royal, royalty, ruler, scientist, 1800, museum, political, politics, agriculture, breeding, animals, collections, rhetoric, education, enlightenment, jacobins |
ISBN |
1-283-05859-6
9786613058591 0-226-76870-8 |
Classificazione | TB 2360 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Place of Histoire naturelle at the Jardin du Roi -- Chapter Two. Acting at a Distance: André Thouin and the Function of Botanical Networks -- Chapter Three. Naturalizing the Tree of Liberty: Generation, Degeneration, and Regeneration in the Jardin du Roi -- Chapter Four. Patronage, Community, and Power: Strategies of Self-Presentation in New Regimes -- Chapter Five. The Spectacle of Nature: The Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle and the Jacobins -- Conclusion: Possible Futures -- Appendix. Holders of Scientific Posts at the Jardin du Roi/Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1750-1793 -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785422503321 |
Spary E. C (Emma C.) | ||
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Utopia's garden : French natural history from Old Regime to Revolution / / E.C. Spary |
Autore | Spary E. C (Emma C.) |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (339 p.) |
Disciplina | 508.44/09/033 |
Soggetto topico | Natural history - France - History - 18th century |
Soggetto non controllato | utopian, history, historical, nature, natural, outdoors, french, france, europe, european, western, regime, revolution, academic, scholarly, research, botanical, garden, jardin, royal, royalty, ruler, scientist, 1800, museum, political, politics, agriculture, breeding, animals, collections, rhetoric, education, enlightenment, jacobins |
ISBN |
1-283-05859-6
9786613058591 0-226-76870-8 |
Classificazione | TB 2360 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Place of Histoire naturelle at the Jardin du Roi -- Chapter Two. Acting at a Distance: André Thouin and the Function of Botanical Networks -- Chapter Three. Naturalizing the Tree of Liberty: Generation, Degeneration, and Regeneration in the Jardin du Roi -- Chapter Four. Patronage, Community, and Power: Strategies of Self-Presentation in New Regimes -- Chapter Five. The Spectacle of Nature: The Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle and the Jacobins -- Conclusion: Possible Futures -- Appendix. Holders of Scientific Posts at the Jardin du Roi/Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1750-1793 -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810233403321 |
Spary E. C (Emma C.) | ||
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Vitalizing nature in the Enlightenment [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Hanns Reill |
Autore | Reill Peter Hanns |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (402 p.) |
Disciplina | 509/.4/09033 |
Soggetto topico |
Vitalism
Science - History - 18th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9786612357497
0-520-93100-9 1-282-35749-2 1-59875-547-1 |
Classificazione | TB 2360 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: The Humboldt Brothers Confront Nature's Sublimity -- I. Storming "the Temple of Error": Buffon, the Histoire naturelle, and the Midcentury Origins of Enlightenment Vitalism -- 2. Learning to "Read the Book of Nature": Vitalizing Chemistry in the Late Enlightenment -- 3. "Within the Circle of Organized Life" -- 4. The Metamorphoses of Change -- 5. From Enlightenment Vitalism to Romantic Naturphilosophie -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450336903321 |
Reill Peter Hanns | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Vitalizing nature in the Enlightenment [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Hanns Reill |
Autore | Reill Peter Hanns |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (402 p.) |
Disciplina | 509/.4/09033 |
Soggetto topico |
Vitalism
Science - History - 18th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
animism charles louis dumas chemistry counter enlightenment cuvier early modern enlightenment enlightenment epigenesis generation history of science history life force life science mechanism modernity natural history natural philosophy natural world nature naturphilosophie philosophy physiology reason relationship with nature religion and science reproduction romanticism science scientific disciplines spark of life stahlian chemistry vitalism william cullen |
ISBN |
9786612357497
0-520-93100-9 1-282-35749-2 1-59875-547-1 |
Classificazione | TB 2360 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: The Humboldt Brothers Confront Nature's Sublimity -- I. Storming "the Temple of Error": Buffon, the Histoire naturelle, and the Midcentury Origins of Enlightenment Vitalism -- 2. Learning to "Read the Book of Nature": Vitalizing Chemistry in the Late Enlightenment -- 3. "Within the Circle of Organized Life" -- 4. The Metamorphoses of Change -- 5. From Enlightenment Vitalism to Romantic Naturphilosophie -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783316003321 |
Reill Peter Hanns | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Vitalizing nature in the Enlightenment / / Peter Hanns Reill |
Autore | Reill Peter Hanns |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (402 p.) |
Disciplina | 509/.4/09033 |
Soggetto topico |
Vitalism
Science - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
9786612357497
0-520-93100-9 1-282-35749-2 1-59875-547-1 |
Classificazione | TB 2360 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: The Humboldt Brothers Confront Nature's Sublimity -- I. Storming "the Temple of Error": Buffon, the Histoire naturelle, and the Midcentury Origins of Enlightenment Vitalism -- 2. Learning to "Read the Book of Nature": Vitalizing Chemistry in the Late Enlightenment -- 3. "Within the Circle of Organized Life" -- 4. The Metamorphoses of Change -- 5. From Enlightenment Vitalism to Romantic Naturphilosophie -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814573103321 |
Reill Peter Hanns | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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