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In the Sun King's cosmos : comets and the cultural imagination of seventeenth-century France / Claire Goldstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldstein, Claire, author.
- Series:
- Rethinking the Early Modern
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715--Cult.
- Louis.
- Comets in art.
- Comets in literature.
- Arts, French--17th century.
- Arts, French.
- Comets--Public opinion--History--17th century.
- Comets.
- Comets--1664.
- Kirch comet.
- France--Civilization--17th century.
- France.
- France--History--Louis XIV, 1643-1715.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2025.
- Contents:
- Part one. Mediatic comets
- "Si confondus à la tour de Babel" : comets and the commercial press in late seventeenth-century France
- Part two. Comètomanie, 1664-65
- Comet ballets
- Beyond the eye of absolutism : Claude Perrault's Observatoire Royal and the intractable challenge of comets
- Part three. Comètomanie, 1680-81
- Comets as commercial circulation in "la petite comédie de La comète"
- "La comète appartient à tout le dessein du livre et non le dessein du livre à la comète" : genres of disenchantment in Bayle's Pensées diverses sur la comète
- Cometic conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780810148130 (electronic bk.)
- 0810148137 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40032637916
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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