Artisanal enlightenment : science and the mechanical arts in Old Regime France / Paola Bertucci.
by
Bertucci, Paola, author.
ISBN
:
9780300231625
Title
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Artisanal enlightenment : science and the mechanical arts in Old Regime France / Paola Bertucci.
Author
:
Bertucci, Paola, author.
Personal Author
:
Bertucci, Paola, author.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (x, 300 pages) : illustrations
Contents
:
Introduction : savants, artisans, artistes -- 1. Lost knowledge and the history of the arts -- 2. Réaumur and the science of the arts -- 3. Theory, practice, improvement -- 4. Society of Arts -- 5. The politics of writing about making -- 6. L'Esprit in the machine -- Epilogue.
Local Note
:
eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subject Term
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Science -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Science -- Philosophy.
Enlightenment -- France.
Sciences -- France -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.
Siècle des Lumières -- France.
SCIENCE -- History.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Science -- Philosophy
Enlightenment
Intellectual life
Science
Geographic Term
:
France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
France -- Vie intellectuelle -- 18e siècle.
France
Format
:
Electronic Resources
Electronic Access
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Publication Date
:
2017
Publication Information
:
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2017]
©2017
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509.4409033 23 | 1:E-BOOK | 1 | 1:ONLINE | Available for online access and/or download |