The sciences in enlightened Europe
This text explores the complex relations between "enlightened" values and the making of scientific knowledge. Here monsters and automata, barometers and botanical gardens, polite academies and boisterous clubs are all given their due place in the landscape of enlightened Europe.
Print Book, English, 1999
University of Chicago Press, Chicago (Ill.), 1999
XI, 566 p. ill. 23 cm
9780226109404, 0226109402
1015122237