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The romantic machine : utopian science and technology after Napoleon / John Tresch.
LIBRA T26.F8 T74 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tresch, John, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--Social aspects--France--19th century.
- Technology.
- Utopias--France--History--19th century.
- Utopias.
- Machinery--Social aspects--19th century.
- Machinery.
- Science--Social aspects--France--19th century.
- Science.
- Technology--Philosophy--19th century.
- Romanticism--France.
- Romanticism.
- Technology--Philosophy.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- France.
- France--History--February Revolution, 1848.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 449 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Mechanical romanticism
- Devices of cosmic unity. Ampère's experiments: contours of a cosmic substance ; 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226812200
- 9780226812205
- OCLC:
- 753468498
- Publisher Number:
- 99949213426
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