The material cultures of enlightenment arts and sciences. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Adriana Craciun, Simon Schaffer, editors.
• Editors: Craciun, Adriana, 1967-; Schaffer, Simon, 1955-
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Part I: Natural Curiosities; Chapter 2: Handling Objects in Natural History Collections; Claude-Joseph Geoffroy; Jean-Etienne Guettard; Chapter 3: Curious Work; Chapter 4: The Lives of Mrs Delany's Paper Plants; Chapter 5: A Pathological Pot; Chapter 6: The Seeds of Disaster: Relics of La Pérouse; The English La Pérouse; Searching for La Pérouse: Circling the Void; The Restoration of La Pérouse; The Seeds of Disaster: Banksia; Conclusion; Part II: Tools and Travels Chapter 7: A Bird in the Hand, or, Manufacturing Credibility in the Instruments of Enlightenment ScienceInstruments and Their Makers; Precision, Accuracy and the Artist's Hand; Truth Seeking: Considerations Eternal and Contingent; Conclusion; Chapter 8: Mapping New Spaces; Chapter 9: By Hand or By Engine; Chapter 10: The Ship as Object: The Launch of the Queen Charlotte; Chapter 11: The Nautical Almanac: Instrument of Controversy; Chapter 12: The Navy's New Clothes; Chapter 13: Unwrapping Gods: Illuminating Encounters with Gods, Comets and Missionaries; Mission Museum, London Visual Metamorphosis: Darkness to LightPropping Up the Sky; 'Taheite was stricken by that comet'; Conclusion; Part III: Artificial Curiosities; Chapter 14: Persons and Things; Chapter 15: The Fabric of Domestic Life: Rethinking the Humble Painted Cloth; Chapter 16: The Willdey Telescope: Instrument for Fashion, Learning and Amusement; Chapter 17: Cataloguing Curiosities: Whitby's Barkcloth Book; Chapter 18: Art and Things: Fragonard's Colour Box; Chapter 19: Keep Within Compass; Chapter 20: Perfected Thing: A Lay Figure by Paul Huot; Part IV: Exotic Goods Chapter 21: A Home Away from Home: Sophie Magdalene's Clockwork ChinoiserieThe Mechanical Models in Danish Collections; The Production of Automata in China; European Clock Making for Chinese Clients; At the Court of Sophie Magdalene; Chapter 22: The Chinese Tallow Tree: From Asset in Asia to Curse in Carolina; Chapter 23: Global Connections: Punch, Porcelain and Maritime Material Culture; Chapter 24: A Damaged and Discarded Thing; Chapter 25: Sarah Sophia Banks, Adam Afzelius and a Coin from Sierra Leone; Chapter 26: A Pacific Macrocosm: 'Les Sauvages de la mer Pacifique' Chapter 27: 'Columen Vitae': Pharmaceutical Packaging, 1750-1850Chapter 28: Tropical Lifestyles, Luxury, and the Health of Britain's Global Power, 1793-1825; Conclusion; Part V: Worlds on Paper; Chapter 29: Extra-illustrations: The Order of the Book and the Fantasia of the Library; Chapter 30: Paperslips; Chapter 31: Advertising and Print Culture in the Eighteenth Century; Chapter 32: Kitty Fisher: The Commodification of Celebrity; Chapter 33: An Admirable Typology; Chapter 34: Connoisseurship and the Communication of Anatomical Knowledge: The Case of William Cheselden's Osteographia (1733)
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.4/6; Literature; Material culture -- History -- 18th century; Science -- History -- 18th century; Literature, Modern -- 18th century; Arts and history; Enlightenment; Intellectual life -- 18th century; Civilization, Modern; Philosophy and civilization; European literature; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Arts and history; Civilization, Modern; Enlightenment; Intellectual life; Literature, Modern; Material culture; Philosophy and civilization; Science; Literary Criticism -- General; Literary Criticism -- Books & Reading; Literary Criticism -- European -- General; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137443793; 1137443790
• Related ISBNs: 9781137445797; 1137445793
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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