The Sciences In Enlightened Europe

Radically Reorienting Our Understanding Of The Enlightenment, This Book Explores The Complex Relations Between Englightened Values And The Making Of Scientific Knowledge. Here Monsters And Automata, Barometers And Botanical Gardens, Polite Academics And Boisterous Clubs, Plans For Violent Wars And For Universal Peace, Are All Relocated In The Landscape Of Enlightened Europe. The Contributors Show How Changing Forms Of Discipline, Machinery, And Instrumentation Affected The Emergence Of New Kinds Of Knowledge; Consider How Institutions Of Public Rate Taste And Conversation Helped Provide A Common Frame For The Study Of Human And Nonhuman Natures; And Explore The Regional Operations Of Scientific Culture At The Geographical Fringes Of Europe. Covering A Wide Range Of Scientific Disciplines, Both In The Principal European Countries And In Areas Peripheral To Europe, The Book Also Includes Ample Illustrations And An Extensive Bibliography. Implicated In The Rise Of Both Fascism And Liberal Secularism, The Moral And Political Values That Shaped The Enlightenment Remain Controversial Today. Through Careful Scrutiny Of How These Values Influenced And Were Influenced By The Concrete Practices Of Its Sciences, This Book Gives Us An Entirely New Sense Of The Enlightenment. -- From Back Cover. Orientations -- Introduction / William Clark, Jan Golinski, Simon Schaffer -- The Enlightenment Our Contemporary / Dorinda Outram -- Bodies And Technologies -- Biopolitics: Political Arithmetic In The Enlightenment / Andrea A. Rusnock -- Barometers Of Change: Meteorological Instruments As Machines Of Enlightenment / Jan Golinski -- French Engineers Become Professionals; Or, How Meritocracy Made Knowledge Objective / Ken Alder -- Enlightened Automata / Simon Schaffer -- Humans And Natures -- Enlightened Monsters / Michael Hagner -- The Science And Conversation Of Human Nature / Marina Frasca-spada -- Metaphysics, Mathematics, And The Gendering Of Science In Eighteenth-century France / Mary Terrall -- The Nature Of Enlightenment / E.c. Spary -- Provinces And Peripheries -- A Forgotten Newtonian: Women And Science In The Italian Provinces / Paula Findlen -- Going Dutch: Situating Science In The Dutch Enlightenment / Lissa Roberts -- Daedalus Hyperboreus: Baltic Natural History And Mineralogy In The Enlightenment / Lisbet Koerner -- The Death Of Metaphysics In Enlightened Prussia / William Clark -- Departures -- Inner History; Or, How To End Enlightenment / Nicholas Jardine -- Afterword: The Ethos Of Enlightenment / Lorraine Daston. Edited By William Clark, Jan Golinski, And Simon Schaffer. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [505]-538) And Index.