Book ID: CBB000850395

Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment (2008)

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Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette (Editor)
Blondel, Christine (Editor)


Ashgate


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xi + 164 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Benhamou, Reed (2010) Review of "Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment". Technology and Culture (p. 493). unapi

Review Ramsey, Matthew (2010) Review of "Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment". European History Quarterly (p. 717). unapi

Essay Review Coppola, Al (2011) Science/Spectacle. Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 117-129). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette; Blondel, Christine (2008) Introduction: A Science Full of Shocks, Sparks and Smells. In: Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Stewart, Larry (2008) The Laboratory, the Workshop, and the Theatre of Experiment. In: Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment (p. 11). unapi

Chapter Pérez, Liliane (2008) Technology, Curiosity and Utility in France and in England in the Eighteenth Century. In: Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment (p. 25). unapi

Chapter Riskin, Jessica (2008) Amusing Physics. In: Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment (p. 43). unapi

Chapter Lynn, Michael R. (2008) Experimental Physics in Enlightenment Paris: The Practice of Popularization in Urban Culture. In: Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment (p. 65). unapi

Chapter Bertucci, Paola (2008) Domestic Spectacles: Electrical Instruments between Business and Conversation. In: Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment (p. 75). unapi

Chapter Hochadel, Oliver (2008) The Sale of Shocks and Sparks: Itinerant Electricians in the German Enlightenment. In: Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment (p. 89). unapi

Chapter Lehman, Christine (2008) Between Commerce and Philanthropy: Chemistry Courses in Eighteenth-Century Paris. In: Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment (p. 103). unapi

Chapter Golinski, Jan (2008) Joseph Priestley and the Chemical Sublime in British Public Science. In: Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment (p. 117). unapi

Chapter Roberts, Lissa (2008) Chemistry on Stage: G. F. Rouelle and the Theatricality of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry. In: Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment (p. 129). unapi

Chapter Simon, Jonathan (2008) Honoré Fragonard, Anatomical Virtuoso. In: Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment (p. 141). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Napolitani, Maddalena
Mills, R. J. W.
Suay Belenguer, Juan Miguel
Strien, Marij van
Schwegman, Jeffrey
Schwedt, Georg
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Intellectual History Review
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Publishers
Università degli Studi di Pavia
Princeton University Press
Deutsches Museum
Brill
Brepols
Aracne
Concepts
Science and society
Chemistry
Electricity; magnetism
Physics
Popularization
Popular culture
People
Davy, Humphry
Volta, Alessandro
Priestley, Joseph
Sage, Balthazar-Georges
Woodhouse, Benjamin
Falconer, William
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Enlightenment
17th century
20th century, early
16th century
Places
France
England
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Spain
Institutions
École Royale des Mines
Royal Institution of Great Britain
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