Popular Science And Public Opinion In Eighteenth Century France
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Author |
: Michael Lynn |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 2018-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526130457 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526130459 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Popular science and public opinion in eighteenth-century France by : Michael Lynn
In this book, Michael R. Lynn 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 provided locations for people interested in science. Phenomena such as divining rods, used to find water and ores as well as to solve crimes; and balloons, the most spectacular of all types of popular science, demonstrate how people made use of their new knowledge. Lynn’s study provides a clearer understanding of the role played by science in the Republic of Letters and the participation of the general population in the formation of public opinion on scientific matters.
Author |
: Jesús Muñoz Morcillo |
Publisher |
: transcript Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 587 |
Release |
: 2020-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783839448359 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3839448352 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Genealogy of Popular Science by : Jesús Muñoz Morcillo
Despite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most researchers approach the popularization of science from the perspective of present issues, thus ignoring its historical roots in classical culture along with its continuities, disruptions, and transformations. This volume fills this research gap with a genealogically reflected introduction into the popularization of science as a recurrent cultural technique. The category »popular science« is elucidated in interdisciplinary and diachronic dialogue, discussing case studies from all historical periods. Classicists, archaeologists, medievalists, art historians, sociologists, and historians of science provide the first diachronic and multi-layered approach to the rhetoric techniques, aesthetics, and societal conditions that have shaped the dissemination and reception of scientific knowledge.
Author |
: Rachel Hammersley |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 447 |
Release |
: 2013-07-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847797391 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1847797393 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The English Republican tradition and eighteenth-century France by : Rachel Hammersley
The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English republican ideas in eighteenth-century France. Challenging some of the dominant accounts of the republican tradition, it revises conventional understandings of what republicanism meant in both Britain and France during the eighteenth century, offering a distinctive trajectory as regards ancient and modern constructions and highlighting variety rather than homogeneity within the tradition. Hammersley thus offers a new and fascinating perspective on both the legacy of the English republican tradition and the origins and thought of the French Revolution. The book focuses on a series of case studies, featuring such colourful and influential characters as John Toland, Viscount Bolingbroke, John Wilkes and the Comte de Mirabeau. This book will thus be of value to all those interested in the fields of intellectual history and the history of political thought, seventeenth and eighteenth-century British history, eighteenth-century French history and French Revolution studies.
Author |
: James Livesey |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2020-01-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300237160 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300237162 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Provincializing Global History by : James Livesey
A microhistory of eighteenth-century systemic change that places ordinary French lives alongside global advances Provincializing Global History explores the subtle transformation of the coastal province of the Languedoc in the eighteenth century. Mining a wealth of archival sources, James Livesey unveils how provincial elites and peasant households unwittingly created new practices. Managing local political institutions, establishing new credit systems, building networks of natural historians, and introducing new plants and farm machinery to the region opened up the inhabitants of the province to new norms and standards. The practices were gradually embedded in daily life and allowed the province to negotiate the new worlds of industrial society and capitalism.
Author |
: J.B. Shank |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 590 |
Release |
: 2008-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226749471 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226749479 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Newton Wars & the Beginning of the French Enlightenment by : J.B. Shank
Nothing is considered more natural than the connection between Isaac Newton’s science and the modernity that came into being during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Terms like “Newtonianism” are routinely taken as synonyms for “Enlightenment” and “modern” thought, yet the particular conjunction of these terms has a history full of accidents and contingencies. Modern physics, for example, was not the determined result of the rational unfolding of Newton’s scientific work in the eighteenth century, nor was the Enlightenment the natural and inevitable consequence of Newton’s eighteenth-century reception. Each of these outcomes, in fact, was a contingent event produced by the particular historical developments of the early eighteenth century. A comprehensive study of public culture, The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment digsbelow the surface of the commonplace narratives that link Newton with Enlightenment thought to examine the actual historical changes that brought them together in eighteenth-century time and space. Drawing on the full range of early modern scientific sources, from studied scientific treatises and academic papers to book reviews, commentaries, and private correspondence, J. B. Shank challenges the widely accepted claim that Isaac Newton’s solitary genius is the reason for his iconic status as the father of modern physics and the philosophemovement.
Author |
: Christine Adams |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2005-08-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 027102609X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780271026091 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-Century France by : Christine Adams
This volume brings together eight essays (all but one previously unpublished) that offer innovative strategies for studying society and culture in eighteenth-century France. Divided into three sections, the chapters map out current research paths in social, cultural, and political history. The authors engage the most heated subjects of debate in the field today, including the changing nature of political life in the age of Enlightenment, the role of public opinion in undermining absolutism, and the impact of gender on social relationships and political language in the late eighteenth century. They demonstrate a marked interest in the lives of ordinary and humble French people, finding that exclusion from the main corridors of power fostered cunning and resourcefulness, not political indifference or ignorance. The articles encompass the Old Regime and the revolutionary era without falling into the teleological trap of using the former as the backdrop for the events of 1789. On the contrary, many of the authors consciously avoid this bias by investigating the Old Regime in its own right or by consciously linking the pre- and postrevolutionary eras. This decision alone marks an important turning of the tide. By establishing a dialogue between the Old Regime and the revolution, this volume implicitly pays homage to those historians who insist on the structural continuities that underlay the rupture of 1789. Contributors are Cissie Fairchilds, Christine Adams, Orest Ranum, Lisa Jane Graham, Harvey Chisick, John Garrigus, Lenard Berlanstein, and Jack Censer.
Author |
: Jeffers Lennox |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2017-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442614055 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442614056 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Homelands and Empires by : Jeffers Lennox
In this deeply researched and engagingly argued work, Jeffers Lennox reconfigures our general understanding of how Indigenous peoples, imperial forces, and settlers competed for space in northeastern North America before the British conquest in 1763.
Author |
: Michael R Lynn |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2015-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317324157 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317324153 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sublime Invention by : Michael R Lynn
Ballooning, like the Enlightenment, was a Europe-wide movement and a massive cultural phenomenon. Lynn argues that in order to understand the importance of science during the age of the Enlightenment and Atlantic revolutions, it is crucial to explain how and why ballooning entered and stayed in the public consciousness.
Author |
: Simon Werrett |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 387 |
Release |
: 2010-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226893778 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226893774 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fireworks by : Simon Werrett
Fireworks are synonymous with celebration in the twenty-first century. But pyrotechnics—in the form of rockets, crackers, wheels, and bombs—have exploded in sparks and noise to delight audiences in Europe ever since the Renaissance. Here, Simon Werrett shows that, far from being only a means of entertainment, fireworks helped foster advances in natural philosophy, chemistry, mathematics, and many other branches of the sciences. Fireworks brings to vibrant life the many artful practices of pyrotechnicians, as well as the elegant compositions of the architects, poets, painters, and musicians they inspired. At the same time, it uncovers the dynamic relationships that developed between the many artists and scientists who produced pyrotechnics. In so doing, the book demonstrates the critical role that pyrotechnics played in the development of physics, astronomy, chemistry and physiology, meteorology, and electrical science. Richly illustrated and drawing on a wide range of new sources, Fireworks takes readers back to a world where pyrotechnics were both divine and magical and reveals for the first time their vital contribution to the modernization of European ideas.
Author |
: Gino Raymond |
Publisher |
: Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages |
: 529 |
Release |
: 2008-10-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780810862562 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0810862565 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Historical Dictionary of France by : Gino Raymond
From the construction of Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower to the Fall of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen to NapolZon Bonaparte's defeat at Waterloo to Albert Camus' L'Etranger and the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, France has been a part of some of the greatest and most memorable events in human history. Author Gino Raymond relates the history of these events in the second edition of the Historical Dictionary of France. Through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on kings, politicians, authors, architects, composers, artists, and philosophers, a thorough history of France is presented.