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Radically reorienting our understanding of the Enlightenment, this book explores the complex relations between "englightened" values and the making of scientifi
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In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and
Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment
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Air-pumps, electrical machines, colliding ivory balls, coloured sparks, mechanical planetariums, magic mirrors, hot-air balloons - these are just a sample of th
Eating the Enlightenment
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Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates
Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe
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This book argues that the provenance of early modern and medieval objects from Islamic lands was largely forgotten until the "long" eighteenth century, when the