Author: William Hooper
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Rational Recreations, In which the Principles of Numbers And Natural Philosophy Are Clearly and Copiously Elucidated, By A Series Of Easy, Entertaining, Interesting Experiments
Author: William Hooper
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Rational Recreations
Author: William Hooper
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Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Rational Recreations
Author: William Hooper (M.D.)
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Category : Card games
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : Card games
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment
Author: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351901877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Air-pumps, electrical machines, colliding ivory balls, coloured sparks, mechanical planetariums, magic mirrors, hot-air balloons - these are just a sample of the devices displayed in public demonstrations of science in the eighteenth century. Public and private demonstrations of natural philosophy in Europe then differed vastly from today's unadorned and anonymous laboratory experiments. Science was cultivated for a variety of purposes in many different places; scientific instruments were built and used for investigative and didactic experiments as well as for entertainment and popular shows. Between the culture of curiosities which characterized the seventeenth century and the distinction between academic and popular science that gradually emerged in the nineteenth, the eighteenth century was a period when scientific activities took place in a variety of sites, ranging from academies, and learned societies to salons and popular fairs, shops and streets. This collection of case studies describing public demonstrations in Britain, Germany, Italy and France exemplifies the wide variety of settings for scientific activities in the European Enlightenment. Filled with sparks and smells, the essays raise broader issues about the ways in which modern science established its legitimacy and social acceptability. They point to two major features of the cultures of science in the eighteenth-century: entertainment and utility. Experimental demonstrations were attended by apothecaries and craftsmen for vocational purposes. At the same time, they had to fit in with the taste of both polite society and market culture. Public demonstrations were a favourite entertainment for ladies and gentlemen and a profitable activity for instrument makers and booksellers.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351901877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Air-pumps, electrical machines, colliding ivory balls, coloured sparks, mechanical planetariums, magic mirrors, hot-air balloons - these are just a sample of the devices displayed in public demonstrations of science in the eighteenth century. Public and private demonstrations of natural philosophy in Europe then differed vastly from today's unadorned and anonymous laboratory experiments. Science was cultivated for a variety of purposes in many different places; scientific instruments were built and used for investigative and didactic experiments as well as for entertainment and popular shows. Between the culture of curiosities which characterized the seventeenth century and the distinction between academic and popular science that gradually emerged in the nineteenth, the eighteenth century was a period when scientific activities took place in a variety of sites, ranging from academies, and learned societies to salons and popular fairs, shops and streets. This collection of case studies describing public demonstrations in Britain, Germany, Italy and France exemplifies the wide variety of settings for scientific activities in the European Enlightenment. Filled with sparks and smells, the essays raise broader issues about the ways in which modern science established its legitimacy and social acceptability. They point to two major features of the cultures of science in the eighteenth-century: entertainment and utility. Experimental demonstrations were attended by apothecaries and craftsmen for vocational purposes. At the same time, they had to fit in with the taste of both polite society and market culture. Public demonstrations were a favourite entertainment for ladies and gentlemen and a profitable activity for instrument makers and booksellers.
Catalogue of the Library of the Great Seal Patent Office
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Monthly Review
Author: George Edward Griffiths
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y..
Author: United States Military Academy. Library
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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The Theater of Experiment
Author: Al Coppola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190269715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science. It analyzes eighteenth-century theatrical representations of science in order to demonstrate how experimental natural philosophy was itself a kind of performing art that was shaped by a wider culture of spectacle in the Enlightenment.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190269715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science. It analyzes eighteenth-century theatrical representations of science in order to demonstrate how experimental natural philosophy was itself a kind of performing art that was shaped by a wider culture of spectacle in the Enlightenment.
Theatre, Performance and Analogue Technology
Author: Kara Reilly
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137319674
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This trans-historical collection explores analogue performance technologies from Ancient Greece to pre-Second World War. From ancient mechanical elephants to early modern automata, Enlightenment electrical experiments to Victorian spectral illusions, this volume offers an original examination of the precursors of contemporary digital performance.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137319674
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This trans-historical collection explores analogue performance technologies from Ancient Greece to pre-Second World War. From ancient mechanical elephants to early modern automata, Enlightenment electrical experiments to Victorian spectral illusions, this volume offers an original examination of the precursors of contemporary digital performance.