MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01927nam a22003738i 4500
001 2011038172
003 DLC
005 20110916093610.0
008 110913t20122012ilu b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2011038172
020 $a9780226812205 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
020 $a0226812200 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
040 $aICU/DLC$beng$cICU$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-fr---
050 00 $aT26.F8$bT74 2012
082 00 $a509.44/09034$223
100 1 $aTresch, John.
245 14 $aThe romantic machine :$butopian science and technology after Napoleon /$cJohn Tresch.
260 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2012, ©2012.
263 $a1204
300 $ap. cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Mechanical romanticism -- Devices of cosmic unity -- Ampère's experiments: contours of a cosmic substance -- Humboldt's instruments: even the tools will be free -- Arago's daguerreotype: the labor theory of knowledge -- Spectacles of creation and metamorphosis -- The devil's opera: fantastic physiospiritualism -- Monsters, machine-men, magicians: the automaton in the garden -- Engineers of artificial paradises -- Saint-Simonian engines: love and conversions -- Leroux's pianotype: the organogenesis of humanity -- Comte's calendar: from infinite universe to closed world -- Conclusion: Afterlives of the romantic machine.
650 0 $aTechnology$xSocial aspects$zFrance$y19th century.
650 0 $aUtopias$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMachinery$xSocial aspects$y19th century.
650 0 $aScience$xSocial aspects$zFrance$y19th century.
650 0 $aTechnology$xPhilosophy$y19th century.
650 0 $aRomanticism$zFrance.
651 0 $aFrance$xHistory$yFebruary Revolution, 1848.