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Sentimental Savants: Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France
Meghan K. Roberts
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Though the public may retain a hoary image of the lone scientific or philosophical genius generating insights in isolation, scholars discarded it long ago. In reality, the families of scientists and philosophers in the Enlightenment played a substantial role, not only making space for inquiry within the home but also assisting in observing, translating, calculating, and illustrating.Sentimental Savants is the first book to explore the place of the family among the savants of the French Enlightenment, a group that openly embraced their families and domestic lives, even going so far as to test out their ideas from education to inoculation ... Read more
Though the public may retain a hoary image of the lone scientific or philosophical genius generating insights in isolation, scholars discarded it long ago. In reality, the families of scientists and philosophers in the Enlightenment played a substantial role, not only making space for inquiry within the home but also assisting in observing, translating, calculating, and illustrating.Sentimental Savants is the first book to explore the place of the family among the savants of the French Enlightenment, a group that openly embraced their families and domestic lives, even going so far as to test out their ideas from education to inoculation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226384115
SKU
V9780226384115
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About Meghan K. Roberts
Meghan K. Roberts is assistant professor of history at Bowdoin College.
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