ISBN:
9781351901888
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (177 p)
Series Statement:
Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
Parallel Title:
Print version Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment
DDC:
306.45094
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: A Science Full of Shocks, Sparks and Smells -- 1 The Laboratory, the Workshop, and the Theatre of Experiment -- 2 Technology, Curiosity and Utility in France and in England in the Eighteenth Century -- 3 Amusing Physics -- 4 Experimental Physics in Enlightenment Paris: The Practice of Popularization in Urban Culture -- 5 Domestic Spectacles: Electrical Instruments between Business and Conversation
Abstract:
6 The Sale of Shocks and Sparks: Itinerant Electricians in the German Enlightenment -- 7 Between Commerce and Philanthropy: Chemistry Courses in Eighteenth-century Paris -- 8 Joseph Priestley and the Chemical Sublime in British Public Science -- 9 Chemistry on Stage: G.F. Rouelle and the Theatricality of Eighteenth-century Chemistry -- 10 Honoré Fragonard, Anatomical Virtuoso -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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