Science in the Age of Sensibility
Subtitle: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780226720784
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History Of Science; Senses And Sensation; Science; Philosophy; Europe; History; Science / History; Physiological Psychology; 18th century; Enlightenment; France; Sensitivity (Personality trait)
First sentence: This book is about the sentimental youth of scientific empiricism, and about a time and place in which its dramas of self-definition were center stage: eighteenth-century France.