Artisanal enlightenment : science and the mechanical arts in Old Regime France /
What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound craftsmen? Making a radical change of historical protagonists, the author places the mechanical arts and the wor...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : savants, artisans, artistes
- 1. Lost knowledge and the history of the arts
- 2. Réaumur and the science of the arts
- 3. Theory, practice, improvement
- 4. Society of Arts
- 5. The politics of writing about making
- 6. L'Esprit in the machine
- Epilogue.