Fireworks : pyrotechnic arts and sciences in European history

Perfecting the pyrotecnique story: the ingenious invention of artificial fireworks -- Philosophies of fire: pyrotechny as alchemy, magic, and mechanics -- A touch of cold philosophy: incendiarism and experiment at the Royal Society -- Spectacular beginnings: fireworks in eighteenth-century Russia -- Traveling italians: pyrotechnic machine in Paris, London, and St. Petersburg -- The Encyclopédie and the electric fire: pyrotechnic contexts for the arts and sciences -- Philosophical fireworks: domesticating pyrotechnics for a polite society -- Conclusion: the geography of art and science

著者

Werrett, Simon

出版社

University of Chicago Press

発売日

2010-05-25

価格

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ISBN

9780226893778

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