Early Modern Fire : Science, Technology, and the Urban Space (Intersections)

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Early Modern Fire : Science, Technology, and the Urban Space (Intersections)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 364 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9789004521759
  • DDC分類 509.4

Full Description

Early Modern Fire offers new perspectives on the history of fire in early modern Europe (ca. 1600-1800). Far from the background role that scholarship has traditionally assigned to fire, the essays in this volume demonstrate its centrality to understanding the entangled histories of science, technology, and society in the pre-industrial period.

Analysing case studies ranging from alchemy to cooking and from firefighting to fireworks, the contributors show that the history of fire is not only one of change and progress, but also of continuity, characterised by the persistence of traditional know-how, small-scale innovation, and the coexistence of different paradigms.

Contributors: Gianenrico Bernasconi, Catherine Denys, Hannah Elmer, Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, Olivier Jandot, Cyril Lacheze, Andrew M.A. Morris, Cornelia Müller, Bérengère Pinaud, Stefano Salvia, Marco Storni, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, and Simon Werrett.

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

Introduction: the Early Modern Fire

 Gianenrico Bernasconi and Marco Storni

Part 1: Fire in Early Modern Science

1 Purity, Purification, and Fire in the Seventeenth-Century Chymical Texts of Nicaise Le Febvre and Michael Sendivogius

 Hannah Elmer

2 'Atoms of Fire': Galileo's Unachieved Theory of Heat and the Beginnings of Thermometry (c.1603-1638)

 Stefano Salvia

3 Without a Thermometer: the Technical Knowledge of Heat in the Early Modern Age

 Marco Storni

4 Working with Fire: Remedy Making from the Shop to the Garden in the Apothecaries' Guild (Eighteenth Century, Paris)

 Bérengère Pinaud

Part 2: Early Modern Fire Technologies

5 The Kitchen Fire (Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century)

 Gianenrico Bernasconi

6 Fire Mechanics: Inventors and Promoters of Heating Systems (Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century)

 Olivier Jandot

7 'The Manner of Conducting Fire': Firing Architectural Terracotta in the Modern Era, between Know-How, Wood Shortage, and Innovations

 Cyril Lacheze

8 John Smeaton's Fire Engine Trials

 Andrew M.A. Morris

Part 3: Fire in the Urban Space

9 The Outbreak of Fire: Inventions, Materials, and Combustion Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century

 Marie Thébaud-Sorger

10 What Firefighting Tells Us about Eighteenth-Century Urban Police

 Catherine Denys

11 Organising the Chaos: Firefighting in Upper Lusatia in the Early Modern Period

 Cornelia Müller

12 Spectacle, Enthusiasm, Objectivity - Managing Fire as an Emoterial

 Simon Werrett

Conclusion: the Technicity of Fire in Modern Europe - a Historiographical Crossroads

 Liliane Hilaire-Pérez

Index Nominum

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