Fireworks : pyrotechnic arts and sciences in European history / Simon Werrett.
2010
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Title
Fireworks : pyrotechnic arts and sciences in European history / Simon Werrett.
Created/published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Description
359 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm
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Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"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 macchine 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.
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 macchine 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.
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TP268 .W47 2010