MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01925cam a2200361 i 4500
001 2011038172
003 DLC
005 20120710150321.0
008 110913s2012 ilu b 001 0 eng c
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020 $a9780226812205 (cloth : alkaline paper)
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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 :$bTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS,$c[2012]
300 $axvii, 449 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 377-430) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Mechanical Romanticism -- DEVICES OF COSMIC UNITY -- Ampère's Experiments: Contours of a Cosmic Cubstance -- 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.