The faces of nature in Enlightenment Europe /
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Imprint: | Berlin : BWV-Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, c2003. |
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Description: | vi, 282 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English German French |
Series: | Concepts & symboles du dix-huitième siècle Européen = Concepts & symbols of the eighteenth century in Europe Concepts & symboles du dix-huitième siècle européen. |
Subject: | Enlightenment -- Europe. Philosophy of nature -- History -- 18th century. Enlightenment. Intellectual life. Philosophy of nature. Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18 century. Europe. History. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5318652 |
Table of Contents:
- The faces of nature : visibility and authority / Lorraine Daston & Gianna Pomata
- The environment and the Enlightenment : the English experience / Roy Porter
- Mapping and displaying an English marshland in the mid-eighteenth century / Sarah Bendall
- Extraordinary bodies and the physicotheological imagination / Fernando Vidal
- Nature personified : remaking stage and spectator in mid-eighteenth-century Parma / Martha Feldman
- A French mid-eighteenth century crisis in experimental natural philosophy through public display : Nollet's electrical shows vs. the devious ways of Franklin's electrical atmospheres / Christian Licoppe
- Von der lebendigen Kunstkammer zur Liebhaberei : fürstliche Menagieren im deutschsprachigen Raum während des 18. Jahrhunderts / Annelore Rieke-Müller
- Forging nature at the Republican Museum / Emma C. Spary
- Auto-icon : Jeremy Bentham's three bodies, the moral laws of nature, and the ideology of capitalism / Andrew Cunningham
- The scientist's body : the nature of a woman philosopher in Enlightenment Italy / Paula Findlen
- Women's dialectics, or the thinking uterus : an eighteenth-century controversy on gender and education / Marta Cavazza
- "Sanctuaire de la nature ou prison du fœtus" : nature et corps féminin sous le combat sur la césarienne en France au XVIIIe siècle / Nadia Maria Filippini.