Science in the age of sensibility : the sentimental empiricists of the French enlightenment / Jessica Riskin.

Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism," natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emoti...

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Main Author: Riskin, Jessica
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Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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