The Sciences in Enlightened Europe

Book Overview

Radically reorienting our understanding of the Enlightenment, this book explores the complex relations between "enlightened" values and the making of scientific knowledge. Here monsters and automata, barometers and botanical gardens, polite academies and boisterous clubs are all given their due place in the landscape of enlightened Europe.

The contributors examine the production of new disciplines through work with instruments and techniques;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226109402
• ISBN13: 9780226109404
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 580 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"