Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Blondel, Christine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume consider the interplay of science and spectacle in eighteenth-century Europe, describing the variety of public demonstrations of science in sites ranging from academies and laboratories to shops and streets.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351901871
• Artikelnr.: 49354412

Autorenporträt

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Université Paris-X Nanterre, France. Christine Blondel is Researcher at CNRS, Paris, France

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: a science full of shocks
sparks and smells
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Christine Blondel; The laboratory
the workshop
and the theatre of experiment
Larry Stewart; Technology
curiosity and utility in France and England in the 18th century
Liliane Pérez; Amusing physics
Jessica Riskin; Experimental physics in Enlightenment Paris: the practice of popularization in urban culture
Michael R. Lynn; Domestic spectacles: electrical instruments between business and conversation
Paola Bertucci; The sale of shocks and sparks: itinerant electricians in German Enlightenment
Oliver Hochadel; Between commerce and philanthropy: chemistry courses in 18th-century Paris
Christine Lehman; Joseph Priestley and the chemical sublime in British public science
Jan Golinski; Chemistry on stage: G.F. Rouelle and the theatricality of 18th-century chemistry
Lissa Roberts; Honoré Fragonard
anatomical virtuoso
Jonathan Simon; Index.