The Sciences in Enlightened Europe

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Radically reorienting our understanding of the Enlightenment, this book explores the complex relations between "englightened" values and the making of scientifi

The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment

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The articles in this volume of ARCHIMEDES examine particular cases of `reception' in ways that emphasize pressing historiographical and methodological issues. S

Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment

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Air-pumps, electrical machines, colliding ivory balls, coloured sparks, mechanical planetariums, magic mirrors, hot-air balloons - these are just a sample of th

Measuring the New World

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Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province

The Book That Changed Europe

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Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe. In this c