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Author: Martin Lister Publisher: ISBN: Category : British Languages : en Pages : 274
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Lister went to Paris as the physician to Lord Portland's embassy to Paris and left this account of the city and its scientific life. The Louvre, Colbert's library, various cabinets of curiosity, food and wine, gardens, conversations with M. Dacier on the circulation of blood, as well as other places and events are detailed in this interesting travelogue with a scientific / medical bent. The plates include engravings of American species of shells and millipedes seen in Tournefort's collection."--B&L Rootenberg.
Author: Martin Lister Publisher: ISBN: Category : British Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
Lister went to Paris as the physician to Lord Portland's embassy to Paris and left this account of the city and its scientific life. The Louvre, Colbert's library, various cabinets of curiosity, food and wine, gardens, conversations with M. Dacier on the circulation of blood, as well as other places and events are detailed in this interesting travelogue with a scientific / medical bent. The plates include engravings of American species of shells and millipedes seen in Tournefort's collection."--B&L Rootenberg.
Author: Martin Lister Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780364527740 Category : Languages : en Pages : 258
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Excerpt from A Journey to Paris in the Year 1698 But why do you trouble us with a Journey to Park, aplace lo well known to every body here? For very good Healon, to fpare the often telling my Tale at my return. But we know al ready all you can fay, or can read it III the Prejént Stat-3 of France, and Defirz'ptim of Park 5 two Books to be had in every Shoo in Londons 'tis right, fo you may; and I advife you not to negleél: them, 'if you have a mind to Judge well of the Grandeur of the Court of France, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Palmira Fontes da Costa Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443804096 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 230
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The central subject of this book is the status of singular experiences in the making of natural knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the eighteenth century. It makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the importance of the reporting and display of extraordinary phenomena at the Royal Society in this period, and shows that the success of these practices was largely based on their multiple roles within the Society, where singular experiences not only promoted natural historical and medical knowledge but also played a social and epistemological role. However, singular experiences were problematic in terms of authentication and the book reveals how eighteenth-century literary satires made the Royal Society an easy and favoured target for their interest in them. The book demonstrates the variety and intricacy of elements involved in the making and circulation of natural knowledge in the period. It provides an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to the place of the singular in one of the oldest and most import scientific institutions in the world.
Author: Nicholas Hammond Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271085533 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 215
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The long and spectacular reign of Louis XIV of France is typically described in overwhelmingly visual terms. In this book, Nicholas Hammond takes a sonic approach to this remarkable age, opening our ears to the myriad ways in which sound revealed the complex acoustic dimensions of class, politics, and sexuality in seventeenth-century Paris. The discovery in the French archives of a four-line song from 1661 launched Hammond’s research into the lives of the two men referenced therein—Jacques Chausson and Guillaume de Guitaut. In retracing the lives of these two men (one sentenced to death by burning and the other appointed to the Ordre du Saint-Esprit), Hammond makes astonishing discoveries about each man and the ways in which their lives intersected, all in the context of the sounds and songs heard in the court of Louis XIV and on the streets and bridges of Paris. Hammond’s study shows how members of the elite and lower classes in Paris crossed paths in unexpected ways and, moreover, how noise in the ancien régime was central to questions of crime and punishment: street singing was considered a crime in itself, and yet street singers flourished, circulating information about crimes that others may have committed, while political and religious authorities wielded the powerful sounds of sermons and public executions to provide moral commentaries, to control crime, and to inflict punishment. This innovative study explores the theoretical, social, cultural, and historical contexts of the early modern Parisian soundscape. It will appeal to scholars interested in sound studies and the history of sexuality as well as those who study the culture, literature, and history of early modern France.
Author: Tim McHugh Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317121155 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 202
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The seventeenth century witnessed profound reforms in the way French cities administered poor relief and charitable health care. New hospitals were built to confine the able bodied and existing hospitals sheltering the sick poor contracted new medical staff and shifted their focus towards offering more medical services. Whilst these moves have often been regarded as a coherent state led policy, recent scholarship has begun to question this assumption, and pick-up on more localised concerns, and resistance to centrally imposed policies. This book engages with these concerns, to investigate the links between charitable health care, poor relief, religion, national politics and urban social order in seventeenth-century France. In so doing it revises our understanding of the roles played in these issues by the crown and social elites, arguing that central government's social policy was conservative and largely reactive to pressure from local elites. It suggests that Louis XIV's policy regarding the reform of poor relief and the creation of General Hospitals in each town and city, as enshrined in the edict of 1662, was largely driven by the religious concerns of the kingdom's devout and the financial fears of the Parisian elites that their city hospitals were overburdened. Only after the Sun King's reign did central government begin to take a proactive role in administering poor relief and health care, utilizing urban charitable institutions to further its own political goals. By reintegrating the social aspirations of urban elites into the history of French poor relief, this book shows how the key role they played in the reform of hospitals, inspired by a mix of religious, economic and social motivations. It concludes that the state could be a reluctant participant in reform, until pressured into action by assisting elite groups pursuing their own goals.
Author: Alice Stroup Publisher: American Philosophical Society ISBN: 9780871697745 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 188
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The scientific revolution of the 17th century engendered diverse & prolific offspring, among which were the scientific societies. The French Academie Royale des Sciences, founded in 1666 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's minister of finance, was the beneficiary of the most generous patronage of science known during the 17th century. It was an official, governmental expression of support for science rather than the independent, scholarly coterie characteristic of other contemporary scientific societies. As this study shows, the finances of the early Academy clarify the research & organization of the fledgling institution & the policies of its three ministerial protectors during the 17th century -- Colbert, Louvois, & Pontchartrain. Illustrations.
Author: Martin Lister
Author: Martin Lister
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Author: Martin Lister
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