| Description |
1 online resource (177 pages) |
| Series |
Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945 |
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Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945.
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| Contents |
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; 6 The Sale of Shocks and Sparks: Itinerant Electricians in the German Enlightenment |
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7 Between Commerce and Philanthropy: Chemistry Courses in Eighteenth-century Paris8 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blondel, Christine
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| ISBN |
9781351901888 |
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1351901885 |
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