Fireworks
Subtitle: pyrotechnic arts and sciences in European history
By: Simon Werrett.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780226893778
Subjects: Fireworks -- Europe -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Perfecting the pyrotecnique story" : the ingenious invention of artificial fireworks; title: Philosophies of fire: pyrotechny as alchemy, magic, and mechanics; title: A touch of cold philosophy: incendiarism and experiment at the Royal Society; title: Spectacular beginnings: fireworks in eighteenth-century Russia; title: Traveling italians: pyrotechnic macchine in Paris, London, and St. Petersburg; title: The Encyclopédie and the electric fire: pyrotechnic contexts for the arts and sciences; title: Philosophical fireworks: domesticating pyrotechnics for a polite society; title: Conclusion: the geography of art and science.