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The romantic machine : utopian science and technology after Napoleon
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- Creator
- John Tresch
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2012]
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 449 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0226812200, 9781280491832, 9780226812205, 1280491833, 0226812227, 9780226812229
- OCLC
- ocn753468498, ocn793166641
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-430) and index.
- Introduction: Mechanical romanticism -- Devices of cosmic unity -- Ampère's experiments: contours of a cosmic substance -- Humboldt's instruments: even the tools will be free -- Arago's daguerreotype: the labor theory of knowledge -- Spectacles of creation and metamorphosis -- The devil's opera: fantastic physiospiritualism -- Monsters, machine-men, magicians: the automaton in the garden -- Engineers of artificial paradises -- Saint-Simonian engines: love and conversions -- Leroux's pianotype: the organogenesis of humanity -- Comte's calendar: from infinite universe to closed world -- Conclusion: Afterlives of the romantic machine
Subjects
- Technology -- Social aspects -- France -- 19th century.
- Utopias -- France -- History -- 19th century.
- Machinery -- Social aspects -- 19th century.
- Science -- Social aspects -- France -- 19th century.
- Technology -- Philosophy -- 19th century.
- Romanticism -- France.
- France -- History -- February Revolution, 1848.