Book ID: CBB000201413

The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia (2002)

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Heesen, Anke te (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2002
Edition Details: Translated by Ann M. Hentschel
Physical Details: xii + 237 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

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Review Sheehan, Jonathan (2004) Review of "The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia". Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (p. 69). unapi

Review Rauch, Alan (2004) Review of "The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 223). unapi

Review Mason, Peter (2003) Review of "The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia". Journal of the History of Collections (p. 153). unapi

Review Ogilvie, Brian W. (2004) Review of "The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 297). unapi

Review Yeo, Richard (2004) Review of "The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 208). unapi

Review Hawley, Judith (2003) Review of "The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia". Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology (p. 441). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Loveland, Jeff
Leonie Hannan
Lucy Wrapson
Missé, Blanca
Morwenna Blewett
Michele Simonetto
Journals
British Journal for the History of Science
Würzburger Medizinhistorische Mitteilungen
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Cuadernos Dieciochistas: revista consagrada al estudio de la historia, el pensamiento, la literatura, el arte y la ciencia del siglo XVIII
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Canova Edizioni
Yale University Press
Voltaire Foundation
Princeton University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Concepts
Visual representation; visual communication
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Material culture
Scientific illustration
Science and politics
Science and culture
People
Delany, Mary Granville
Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Smellie, William
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Time Periods
18th century
Enlightenment
17th century
19th century
Renaissance
Early modern
Places
Europe
Great Britain
Germany
Polynesia
England
West Africa
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