The faces of nature in Enlightenment Europe
By: Lorraine Daston, Gianna Pomata (eds.).
Contributors: Daston, Lorraine, 1951-; Pomata, Gianna.
Series: Concepts & symboles du dix-huitième siècle Européen = -- Concepts & symbols of the eighteenth century in Europe
Publisher: BWV-Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng; ger; fre
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Enlightenment -- Europe.; Philosophy of nature -- History -- 18th century.; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

In English, French, and German.
Table of contents: title: The faces of nature : visibility and authority -- Lorraine Daston & Gianna Pomata; title: The environment and the Enlightenment : the English experience -- Roy Porter; title: Mapping and displaying an English marshland in the mid-eighteenth century -- Sarah Bendall; title: Extraordinary bodies and the physicotheological imagination -- Fernando Vidal; title: Nature personified : remaking stage and spectator in mid-eighteenth-century Parma -- Martha Feldman; title: A French mid-eighteenth century crisis in experimental natural philosophy through public display : Nollet's electrical shows vs. the devious ways of Franklin's electrical atmospheres -- Christian Licoppe; title: Von der lebendigen Kunstkammer zur Liebhaberei : fürstliche Menagieren im deutschsprachigen Raum während des 18. Jahrhunderts -- Annelore Rieke-Müller; title: Forging nature at the Republican Museum -- Emma C. Spary; title: Auto-icon : Jeremy Bentham's three bodies, the moral laws of nature, and the ideology of capitalism -- Andrew Cunningham; title: The scientist's body : the nature of a woman philosopher in Enlightenment Italy -- Paula Findlen; title: Women's dialectics, or the thinking uterus : an eighteenth-century controversy on gender and education -- Marta Cavazza; title: "Sanctuaire de la nature ou prison du fœtus" : nature et corps féminin sous le combat sur la césarienne en France au XVIIIe siècle-- Nadia Maria Filippini.