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Author Lynn, Michael R

Title Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France
Published Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (188 pages)
Series Studies in Early Modern European History MUP Ser
Studies in Early Modern European History MUP Ser
Contents Popular science and public opinion in eighteenth-century France; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 The practice of popularization; 3 The audience, economics, and geography of popular science; 4 Institutions of popular science; 5 Divining rods and public opinion; 6 Balloons and mass science; 7 Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index
Summary Now available in paperback, Michael R. Lynn's book analyses the popularisation of science in Enlightenment France. He examines the content of popular science, the methods of dissemination, the status of the popularisers and the audience, and the settings for dissemination and appropriation. Lynn introduces individuals like Jean-Antoine Nollet, who made a career out of applying electric shocks to people, and Perrin, who used his talented dog to lure customers to his physics show. He also examines scientifically oriented clubs like Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier's Musée de Monsieur which provid
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Subject Science -- France -- History -- 18th century
Science and civilization -- History -- 18th century
Science -- France -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century
Public opinion -- France -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY / Europe / France.
Public opinion
Science
Science and civilization
Science -- Public opinion
France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526130457
1526130459