Format:
xvii, 449 pages
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Illustrationen
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23 cm
Edition:
Paperback edition
ISBN:
9780226214801
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022621480X
Content:
"This book examines a period in which a different image of science - as a theory of nature and a theory of knowing - appeared, at the same time as a new set of machines came on the scene: steam engines, batteries, sensitive electrical and atmospheric instruments, improved presses, and photography....This alternative scientific tradition rose to prominene in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s amid the upheavals of early industrialization. I focus on its manifestations in Paris, the city to which many looked for signs of things to come."--Preface, page xi
Note:
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-430) and index
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Introduction: Mechanical Romanticism -- DEVICES OF COSMIC UNITY -- Ampère's Experiments: Contours of a Cosmic Cubstance -- Humboldt's Instruments: Even the Tools Will Be Free -- Arago's Daguerreotype: The Labor Theory of Knowledge -- SPECTACLES OF CREATION AND METAMORPHOSIS -- The Devil's Opera: Fantastic Physiospiritualism -- Monsters, Machine-Men, Magicians: The Automaton in the Garden -- ENGINEERS OF ARTIFICIAL PARADISES -- Saint-Simonian Engines: Love and Conversions -- Leroux's Pianotype: The Organogenesis of Humanity -- Comte's Calendar: From Infinite Universe to Closed World -- Conclusion: Afterlives of the Romantic Machine.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226812229
Language:
English
