Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Catalog
Author: Warburg Institute. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Utopia's Garden
Author: E. C. SparyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226768708
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Muséum, arguing that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why natural history was important for French rulers. But the Muséum's success was also a consequence of its employees' Revolutionary rhetoric: by displaying the natural order, they suggested, the institution could assist in fashioning a self-educating, self-policing Republican people. Natural history was presented as an indispensable source of national prosperity and individual virtue. Spary's fascinating account opens a new chapter in the history of France, science, and the Enlightenment.
Library Catalog
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
A Catalogue of a Miscellaneous Collection of Books, to be Sold by William & Charles Tait ... Edinburgh
Author: William Tait (Bookseller.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Based on reports from American repositories of manuscripts.
Science and Polity in France
Author: Charles Coulston GillispiePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400824613
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersections. This is a study of those transactions between science and state, knowledge and power--on the eve of the French Revolution. Charles Gillispie explores how the links between science and polity in France were related to governmental reform, modernization of the economy, and professionalization of science and engineering.
Madame de Svign
Author: Frances MossikerPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231061537
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
This biography of Mme de Sevigne brings to life the world of seventeenth-century France, a mother and her daughter, a writer and her brilliant letters. The passion and the pathos of this correspondence brings us as close as we can come to the mind of a woman in the court of Louis XIV.
The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Author: National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.