Chapter ID: CBB000076952

Novalis, Ritter and “experiment”: A tradition of “active empiricism” (1998)

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Henderson, Fergus (Author)


Pages: 153-169
Publication date: 1998


Description On Novalis's notion of “experiment” as reflected in Ritter's work on Galvanism.


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Authors & Contributors
Pera, Marcello
Bernardi, Walter
Carradori, Giovacchino
Clower, William T.
Curi, Ettore
Faivre, Antoine
Journals
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Atti e Memorie della Accademia di Agricoltura, Scienze e Lettere di Verona
Études Philosophiques
Eighteenth-Century Studies
History of Science
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Publishers
New York University
Einaudi
Olschki
Princeton University Press
Routledge
Società Pratese di Storia Patria
Concepts
Human physiology
Electrophysiology
Romanticism
Reproductive medicine
Poetry and poetics
Science and literature
People
Galvani, Luigi
Volta, Alessandro
Ritter, Johann Wilhelm
Novalis
Carradori, Giovacchino
Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Places
Italy
Germany
British Isles
France
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