Science in the age of sensibility : the sentimental empiricists of the French enlightenment

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Riskin, Jessica
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Science > France > History > 18th century.
Enlightenment > France.
Sensitivity (Personality trait)
SCIENCE > History.
Enlightenment
Science
Aufklärung
Empirie
Sensibilität
Wissenschaft
Wetenschapsbeoefening.
Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
France
Frankreich
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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