Versailles : science and splendour / edited by Anna Ferrari.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ferrari, Anna, 1986- editor.

Science Museum (Great Britain), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--France--Versailles--17th century--Exhibitions.

Science.

Aesthetics, French--17th century--Exhibitions.

Aesthetics, French.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Biographies.

Exhibition catalogs.

Art.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits, plans, facsimiles ; 26 x 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Scale Arts and Heritage Publishers, 2024.

Summary:

Versailles: Science and Splendour is a richly illustrated book that breaks new ground in exploring the relationship between science and power at the court of Versailles - published to accompany the exhibition at London's Science Museum.

Contents:

Introduction

The Royal Academy of Sciences: painting science and power

Thuret and clockmaking at the Royal Academy of Sciences

Cassini's map of the moon

Thuret's machines: a hymn to the glory of the king

The marly machine: the quest to bring water to Versailles

Between science and diplomacy: cultivating pineapples at Versailles

Louis XV's rhinocerous

Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz and the trianon garden

The clock of the creation of the world

A portrait of Emilie du Châtelet (1706-1749)

Abbé Jean-Antoine Nollet's spectacle of science

Madame du Coudray's 'machine'

'A fairly good likeness': Diderot and his portraits

A chemistry laboratory model for princely education

Mapping La Pérouse's expedition: Louis XVI and the pacific

The flight of the montgolfière at Versailles.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Science Museum, London, 12 December 2024 - 21 April 2025.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1785515829

9781785515828

OCLC:

1452503257