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Fireworks : pyrotechnic arts and sciences in European history / Simon Werrett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Werrett, Simon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fireworks--Europe--History.
- Fireworks.
- History.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 359 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- "Perfecting the pyrotecnique story" : the ingenious invention of artificial fireworks
- Philosophies of fire : pyrotechny as alchemy, magic, and mechanics
- A touch of cold philosophy : incendiarism and experiment at the Royal Society
- Spectacular beginnings : fireworks in eighteenth-century Russia
- Traveling Italians : pyrotechnic macchine in Paris, London, and St. Petersburg
- The Encyclopédie and the electric fire : pyrotechnic contexts for the arts and sciences
- Philosophical fireworks : domesticating pyrotechnics for a polite society
- Conclusion: the geography of art and science.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780226893778
- 0226893774
- OCLC:
- 405107205
- Publisher Number:
- 99937532081
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