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The Sciences in Enlightened Europe (Paperback)
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The Sciences in Enlightened Europe (Paperback)
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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; consider how institutions of
public taste and conversation helped provide a common frame for the
study of human and nonhuman natures; and explore the regional
operations of scientific culture at the geographical fringes of
Europe.
Implicated in the rise of both fascism and liberal secularism, the
moral and political values that shaped the Enlightenment remain
controversial today. Through careful scrutiny of how these values
influenced and were influenced by the concrete practices of its
sciences, this book gives us an entirely new sense of the
Enlightenment.
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