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Science in the Age of Sensibility The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment

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ISBN-10: 0226720799

ISBN-13: 9780226720791

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jessica Riskin

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In the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. What Riskin describes as a 'sentimental empiricism' is the ideology which brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics.
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Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 346
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Sensibility and Enlightenment Science
The Blind and the Mathematically Inclined
Poor Richard's Leyden Jar
From Electricity to Economy
The Lawyer and the Lightning Rod
The Mesmerism Investigation and the Crisis of Sensibilist Science
Languages of Science and Revolution
Conclusion: The Legacy of the Sentimental Empiricists
Bibliography
Index
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