Author: Peter Gaskell
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Category : Artisans
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Author: Paola Bertucci
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300231628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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A groundbreaking work that places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment 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, Paola Bertucci places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment. At a time of great colonial, commercial, and imperial concerns, artistes planned encyclopedic projects and sought an official role in the administration of the French state. The Société des Arts, which they envisioned as a state institution that would foster France’s colonial and economic expansion, was the most ambitious expression of their collective aspirations. Artisanal Enlightenment provides the first in-depth study of the Société, and demonstrates its legacy in scientific programs, academies, and the making of Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie. Through insightful analysis of textual, visual, and material sources, Bertucci provides a groundbreaking perspective on the politics of writing on the mechanical arts and the development of key Enlightenment concepts such as improvement, utility, and progress.

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Category : Mechanics
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Author: Maxine Berg
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521287593
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Dr Berg argues that technical change was one of the foremost theoretical concerns of Ricardo and his successors, and the foundation for their distinctly optimistic view of the future. She shows how the Machinery Question fostered the social conditions in which the status of Political Economy as a discipline was established, and concludes that by the 1840s the divisions over machinery were firmly embedded in the great rival creeds of the future, liberalism and socialism.

Author: Thomas Gill (patent-agent)
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Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 943

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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Author: Oliver Byrne
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Category : Artisans
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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