The romantic machine
Subtitle: utopian science and technology after Napoleon
By: John Tresch
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780226812205
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Machinery; Utopias; Science; Philosophy; Technology; Romanticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Mechanical romanticism; title: Devices of cosmic unity; title: Ampère's experiments: contours of a cosmic substance; title: Humboldt's instruments: even the tools will be free; title: Arago's daguerreotype: the labor theory of knowledge; title: Spectacles of creation and metamorphosis; title: The devil's opera: fantastic physiospiritualism; title: Monsters, machine-men, magicians: the automaton in the garden; title: Engineers of artificial paradises; title: Saint-Simonian engines: love and conversions; title: Leroux's pianotype: the organogenesis of humanity; title: Comte's calendar: from infinite universe to closed world; title: Conclusion: Afterlives of the romantic machine.