Download or read book 1668 written by Peter Sahlins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Sahlins’s brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied “animal moment” in and around 1668 in which authors (including La Fontaine, whose Fables appeared in that year), anatomists, painters, sculptors, and especially the young Louis XIV turned their attention to nonhuman beings. At the center of the Year of the Animal was the Royal Menagerie in the gardens of Versailles, dominated by exotic and graceful birds. In the remarkable unfolding of his original and sophisticated argument, Sahlins shows how the animal bodies of the menagerie and others (such as the dogs and lambs of the first xenotransfusion experiments) were critical to a dramatic rethinking of governance, nature, and the human. The animals of 1668 helped to shift an entire worldview in France — what Sahlins calls Renaissance humanimalism — toward more modern expressions of Classical naturalism and mechanism. In the wake of 1668 came the debasement of animals and the strengthening of human animality, including in Descartes’s animal-machine, highly contested during the Year of the Animal. At the same time, Louis XIV and his intellectual servants used the animals of Versailles to develop and then to transform the symbolic language of French absolutism. Louis XIV came to adopt a model of sovereignty after 1668 where his absolute authority is represented in manifold ways with the bodies of animals and justified by the bestial nature of his human subjects. 1668: The Year of the Animal in France explores and reproduces the king’s animal collections — in printed text, weaving, poetry, and engraving, all seen from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. Sahlins brings the animals of 1668 together and to life as he observes them critically in their native habitats — within the animal palace itself by Louis Le Vau, the paintings and tapestries of Charles Le Brun, the garden installations of André Le Nôtre, the literary work of Charles Perrault and the natural history of his brother Claude, the poetry of Madeleine de Scudéry, the philosophy of René Descartes, the engravings of Sébastien Leclerc, the trans_fusion experiments of Jean Denis, and others. The author joins the non_human and human agents of 1668 — panthers and painters, swans and scientists, weasels and weavers — in a learned and sophisticated treatment that will engage scholars and students of early modern France and Europe and readers broadly interested in the subject of animals in human history.

Download or read book Catalogue of scientific serials of all countries 1633 1876 written by Samuel Hubbard Scudder and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of Scientific Serials of All Countries Including the Transactions of Learned Societies in the Natural Physical and Mathematical Sciences 1633 1876 written by Samuel Hubbard Scudder and published by Cambridge : Library of Harvard University. This book was released on 1879 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of Scientific Serials of All Countries written by Samuel Hubbard Scudder and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Special Publications written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Courtiers Anatomists written by Anita Guerrini and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Courtiers Anatomists" is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV s Paris. By exploring the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy, Anita Guerrini reveals how animals were central to collecting, describing, and classifyingnatural historyand how anatomy and natural history were linked through animal dissection and vivisection. She looks at the early modern animal project, and particularly at Joseph-Guichard Duverney and Claude Perrault, in the context of the court, the city of Paris, and burgeoning audiences for natural history. The Academy and the King s Garden were the two main sites in Paris for the performance of natural history, and much of the Scientific Revolution in France played itself out in these two public institutions. Fascinating stories are culled in "The Courtiers Anatomists" to explore the relationships between empiricism and theory, human and animal, the origins of the natural history museum and modern science, and the relationship between science and other cultural activities including art, music, and literature. This book will be warmly welcomed by historians of science, medicine, and France, as well as by early modernists and many others in the growing field of animal studies."

Download or read book The Anatomist Anatomis d written by Andrew Cunningham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as 'the perfection of anatomy'. This book looks at the investigation of anatomy in the 'long' eighteenth century in disciplinary terms. This means looking in a novel way not only at the practical aspects of anatomizing but also at questions of how one became an anatomist, where and how the discipline was practised, what the point was of its practice, what counted as sub-disciplines of anatomy, and the nature of arguments over anatomical facts and priority of discovery. In particular pathology, generation and birth, and comparative anatomy are shown to have been linked together as sub-disciplines of anatomy. At first sight anatomy seems the most long-lived and stable of medical disciplines, from Galen and Vesalius to the present. But Cunningham argues that anatomy was, like so many other areas of knowledge, changed irrevocably around the end of the eighteenth century, with the creation of new disciplines, new forms of knowledge and new ways of investigation. The 'long' eighteenth century, therefore, was not only the highpoint of anatomy but also the endpoint of old anatomy.

Download or read book Bibliographia Zoologi Et Geologi written by Louis Agassiz and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliographia Zoologiae Et Geologiae written by Louis Agassiz and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons in London written by Royal College of Surgeons of England. Library and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Manuscripts Maps and Drawings in the British Museum Natural History written by British Museum (Natural History). Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coloured Illustrations of British Birds and Their Eggs written by Henry Leonard Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Before Voltaire written by J.B. Shank and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have grown accustomed to the idea that scientific theories are embedded in their place and time. But in the case of the development of mathematical physics in eighteenth-century France, the relationship was extremely close. In Before Voltaire, J.B. Shank shows that although the publication of Isaac Newton’s Principia in 1687 exerted strong influence, the development of calculus-based physics is better understood as an outcome that grew from French culture in general. Before Voltaire explores how Newton’s ideas made their way not just through the realm of French science, but into the larger world of society and culture of which Principia was an intertwined part. Shank also details a history of the beginnings of calculus-based mathematical physics that integrates it into the larger intellectual currents in France at the time, including the Battle of the Ancients and the Moderns, the emergence of wider audiences for science, and the role of the newly reorganized Royal Academy of Sciences. The resulting book offers an unprecedented cultural history of one the most important and influential elements of Enlightenment science.

Download or read book The Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London written by Zoological Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London Additions No 4 18 written by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Science Reorganized written by James Edward McClellan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: