Artisanal enlightenment : science and the mechanical arts in old regime France /
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Yale University Press,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: savants, artisans, artistes. Part 1 The natural history of the arts : Lost knowledge and the history of the arts -- Réaumur and the science of the arts. Part 2 The Société des Arts : Theory, practice, improvement -- Society of Arts. Part 3 Writing and making : The politics of writing about making -- L'Esprit in the machine. Epilogue.