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Paris savant : capital of science in the Age of Enlightenment / Bruno Belhoste ; translated by Susan Emanuel ; foreword by Dena Goodman.
Van Pelt Library Q127.F8 B4413 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Belhoste, Bruno, author.
- Goodman, Dena, 1952- author of introduction, etc.
- Standardized Title:
- Paris savant. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Science--France--Paris--History--18th century.
- Science.
- Scientists--France--Paris--Biography.
- Scientists.
- History.
- Paris (France)--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Paris (France).
- Intellectual life.
- France--Paris.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 306 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Capital of science in the Age of Enlightenment
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Contents:
- The gentlemen of the Academy of Sciences
- The capital of the sciences
- Fields of knowledge in the city
- The Encyclopédie
- The court and the town
- Spectacles and marvels
- Inventions
- Public hygiene
- The severe science
- Revolution!
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Originally published in French as Paris savant: parcours et rencontres au temps des Lumières; Paris : Armand Colin, 2011.
- English edition date from Ingram ipage.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-289) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199382545
- 0199382549
- OCLC:
- 1097578507
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